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

Oct 22, 2025 - The program, which is administered by the California Housing Finance Agency, provides downpayment assistance to eligible first-time, first-generation homebuyers. Under the California Dream for All model, borrowers do not make any payments on their downpayment loan until the home is sold or paid off.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 5, 2025 - Because the California Constitution does not require the state to reimburse local governments for costs to comply with federal law, disagreements have arisen over the years about whether all of the requirements in a given water quality permit are specifically required by federal law or whether they impose ad ditional requirements from the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, low ‑income households have less money to purchase and operate air conditioning units during extreme heat events, air filters to moderate wildfire smoke, or back ‑up electricity generators to provide electricity during Public Safety Power Shutoff events.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Feb 14, 2022 - In 2021 ‑22, the administration estimates the fee will generate $3  million. Current revenues are insufficient to support the current program objectives. In the near term, how the fee revenue supporting the existing program would interact with the proposed MORE Program is unclear.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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