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

Oct 22, 2025 - Chapter  22 imposes a six-year suspension (through mid-2031) of new residential-building standards by both the state and local governments, with specified exceptions for standards pertaining to health and safety and certain other exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 14, 2022 - In all, the AHSC Program has allocated nearly $2.5  billion GGRF over six rounds of funding through 2020 ‑21 and has contributed to the creation of 16,400  housing units. Across all six rounds, the projects are estimated to reduce pollutants in the air equivalent to getting about 90,000 cars off the road for one year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

May 5, 2025 - (In addition, four of the six required activities were one time in nature and thus local governments have already completed them without cause to incur further costs.) …However, Multiple Additional Stormwater-Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - A recent scientific  study  by United States Geological Survey researchers predicted that under scenarios of three feet to six feet of sea‑level rise, up to two‑thirds of Southern California beaches may become completely eroded by 2100.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - 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. A long-standing way that California and the rest of the United States have estimated the number of people experiencing homelessness is through a point-in-time count.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - In recent years, much of the new housing construction in the state has occurred in areas that are at significant risk of the effects of climate change. For example, over the past decade, six out of ten of the state ’s fastest growing counties have been in the Central Valley and Inland Empire, which are regions that are a comparatively high risk of excessive heat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 9, 2022 - DHCS intends to make BH ‑CIP grant funds available through six rounds. Under this schedule, funding through rounds one and two were made available in 2021 and some awards were made. Round one ($150  million) is focused on mobile crisis infrastructure and round two ($16  million) is focused on local planning activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

May 2, 2023 - Every ten years, in years ending in the number zero, the U.S. Census identifies (1)  the number of people who live in the United States and (2)  where people live across the country. The census shows changes in the number of people living in a jurisdiction and collects information regarding the demographics and characteristics of those people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

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

May 30, 2025 - Typically, the process for determining whether a law or reg ulation is a state-reimbursable mandate takes several years. State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified by CSM as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Typically, the process for determining whether a law or regulation is a state-reimbursable mandate takes several years. State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified b y the Commission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910