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

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

Oct 22, 2025 - At tha t time, they will owe the original loan amount plus a certain percentage of the increase in home value. Borrowers ’ repayments, in turn, will be used to provide loans to additional homebuyers in the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Many of the key ways that climate change will affect housing discussed above also could further increase housing costs. These effects likely will vary geographically based on climate change impacts. For example, the need to modify and maintain existing homes and higher insura nce premiums will directly increase the costs of homeownership.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

May 2, 2023 - With the knowledge that Chapter 781 would increase state General Fund costs by at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Legislature approved the legislation that (1) shifted the responsibility for the redistricting process from the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors to an independent commission and (2) anticipated state General Fund support for the activities required by the law that the Commission identified would be state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

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

Feb 14, 2022 - While increased housing development is of foremost importance to address the state ’s housing affordability challenges, increased focus on where housing is built will be necessary to mitigate and adapt to the current and growing impacts of climate change.
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 - For example, the extent to which a local government provided services with increased demand during the pandemic likely indicates how a local government ’s expenditures may have been affected by the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Overall, the state has increased its role in addressing homelessness by providing significant, albeit one ‑time and temporary, funding towards infrastructure and flexible aid to local governments in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521