The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - BCSH = Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency; CHHA = California Housing and Homelessness Agency; Cal ICH = California Interagency Council on Homelessness; and HDFC = Housing Development and Finance Committee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Like the point-in-time count, these annual numbers from HDIS also are undercounts, primarily because the HDIS data do not include people experiencing homelessness who did not access any services (and thus did not get recorded in a CoC data system) —or accessed services from a provider who is not part of a CoC (such as veterans experiencing homelessness who received services exclusively from the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - The majority protest process makes it less burdensome to increase fees for these services. Notably, Proposition  218 did not define what activities are encompassed by “sewer services. ” A 2017 State Law Defined “Sewer, ” Making Fee Increases Less Burdensome.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details] The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding Format: HTML Description: The Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) program provides grants for local communities to address homeless encampments by funding housing and other services to the people living there.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5007

Review of Recent Department of Social Services Housing and Homelessness Augmentations [Publication Details]

Jul 14, 2023 - Review of Recent Department of Social Services Housing and Homelessness Augmentations [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4783

Recent Homelessness-Related Augmentations and Oversight [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2023 - Presented to: Senate Housing Committee Senate Committee on Human Services
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4726

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local governments when (1)  new state laws or regulations mandate that they implement a new program or higher level of service and (2)  the local government does not have offsetting revenues —such as fees or federal funds —available to cover the associated costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

Recent Housing and Homelessness Augmentations and Oversight [Publication Details]

Feb 15, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development, Assembly Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review, Assembly Committee on Health, Assembly Committee on Human Services,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4685

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - Under this program, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) provides competitive grants to local entities to increase behavioral health infrastructure, predominantly by constructing, acquiring, or renovating facilities for community behavioral health services (contingent on these local entities providing matching funds and committing to providing funding for ongoing services).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - The costs imposed by this mandate include legal counsel services, indirect —such as administrative —costs , and law enforcement ’s time to ensure youths consult with legal counsel. Accordingly, the Commission ’s decision makes costs incurred by a local government to meet this requirement reimbursable by the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910