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

Oct 22, 2025 - Fee revenue is to b e deposited into a fund administered by HCD and used to fund VMT-reducing projects such as affordable housing near transit stops. The Governor ’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation is required by July 2026 to issue initial guidance for this new program, including providing details such as the methodologies for determining the amount of the fee and estimating the anticipated reduction in VMT resulting from payment of the fee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 5, 2025 - It asserted that common use of the word sewer is not limited to sanitary systems and cited earlier statute that uses a more expansive definition of “sewer system ” which includes systems to dispose of sewage, industrial waste, and surface and stormwaters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Below, we provide estimates using two common methodologies. We then summarize state funding in recent years related to housing and homelessness. Last Year ’s Point-in-Time Count Identified More Than 180,000 Californians Experiencing Homelessness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - A law enforcement officer is required to communicate these rights and —prior to beginning an interrogation —explain that anything said by the arrested youth can and will be used against the youth. The arrested youth can waive these rights.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - We hope that by shedding light on how COVID ‑19 has added to the financial stress of renters, we can inform policy solutions to help renters through this crisis. In particular, the state and local governments will soon have to determine how to allocate recently authorized federal funding for emergency rental assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Ultimately, the Governor aimed to solicit affordable housing developers to build demonstration projects on excess state property that use creative and streamlined approaches to building (for example, using modular construction).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - The allocation of this past funding was designed to get money to cities and counties as fast as possible largely by using readily available metrics, such as a jurisdiction ’s population and other commonly used allocation formulas, to determine the level of funding allocated to each jurisdiction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

Feb 9, 2022 - While key details are forthcoming, the administration indicates funds could be used differently than the existing program structure. For instance, funds could be used to purchase and install tiny homes and to provide time ‑limited operational supports in these tiny homes or in other housing settings, including existing assisted living settings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - Because the Legislature took specific steps to require Los Angeles to use an independent redistricting commission while making it optional for other jurisdictions, no longer requiring such a commission in Los Angeles would represent a significant policy change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766