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

May 30, 2025 - While not directly linked to these mandates, CSM has significant pending workload related to other stormwater permits issued by the state water boards dating back to 2007. This includes 32 pending test claims and 4 additional claims for which CSM has already identified state-reimbursable mandated activities but has not yet developed cost estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

May 5, 2025 - As such, the ultimate costs to the state likely will be less than the amounts local governments are requesting. Since 2016, the water boa rds have been trying to design permits in a way that minimizes creation of state-reimbursable mandates while also continuing to enforce state and federal water quality laws.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Low ‑income residents also are more likely to live in older housing that requires modifications —such as air conditioning or more fire ‑resistant exteriors —to adapt to increased risks. Notably, low ‑income residents also are more likely to live in rental housing, and thus more likely to be reliant on landlords to conduct modifications to their homes to mitigate the effects of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

May 2, 2023 - Chapter  781 established requirements for the composition and establishment of the redistricting commission as well as criteria, time lines, and procedures that the redistricting commission must follow when developing new supervisor district boundaries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Notably, low ‑income residents also are more likely to live in rental housing, and thus more likely to be reliant on landlords to conduct modifications to their homes to mitigate the effects of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - This is notable because research suggests that youths may be less likely to understand their Miranda rights and are more susceptible to waving their right s than adults. This is because youths can lack the capacity to weigh the long-term consequences of waiving their rights and may do so as a matter of compliance with authority.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

May 12, 2021 - Consequently, TOT collections also likely dropped. Local governments that rely more heavily on TOT revenues —meaning TOT makes up a larger share of overall revenue sources —likely have seen larger revenue declines than those that rely on other revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

Feb 14, 2022 - The state ’s ability to spend the major augmentations within the proposed time lines is unclear. Consider Longer ‑Term Plan for Expanded State Role in Housing. The scale of the housing crisis in California is significant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - For the reasons stated above, while delinquencies likely will increase somewhat during the spring and summer of 2021, we anticipate that many forbearance borrowers will be able to continue making payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312