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

Oct 22, 2025 - Our office ’s post, The 2025‑26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions , provides an update on this action as well as other wildfire-related actions included in the 2025-26 budget package. Suspends Four Newly Identified Mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government [Publication Details]

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package contains a number of major actions in the area of agency reorganization, homelessness, housing, and other actions, which we describe in this post.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

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

May 5, 2025 - We will assess the other three mandates —also related to stormwater permits —after the administration proposes a course of action, potentially in the Governor ’s revised budget proposal in May. Summary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - For example, CSM determined that requirements to develop and implement certain plans (such as a watershed action plan), provide formal training to relevant employees, and develop a proposal for assessing effectiveness of the urban runoff management program to be state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Since past government actions —such as redlining —have exacerbated the disproportionate risks that some communities face and they may have fewer resources upon which to draw, the Legislature may want to consider whether the state should take actions such as targeting assistance to certain neighborhoods.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 14, 2022 - Ultimately, assessing the performance of current programs and taking stock of how prior actions collectively have moved forward the state ’s housing response could inform the Legislature ’s budget decisions in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - As discussed earlier, federal actions to boost household incomes, as well as low unemployment among higher ‑income workers (who are most likely to be homeowners), have helped most homeowners weather the downturn.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Forthcoming information from the Homelessness Landscape Assessments and improvements to HDIS could help the Legislature make better ‑informed budget decisions in future fiscal years and exercise stronger oversight over  budget actions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

May 12, 2021 - The recent actions by the federal and state governments described in this analysis will mitigate some of the adverse budgetary effects that the COVID ‑ 19 p andemic has had on local governments. That being said, the funding received by local governments on a per capita basis varied across the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - In 2009, the commission determined that the permit requirement to install and maintain trash receptacles at transit stops constituted a mandate because the federal Clean Water Act does not explicitly require this specific action.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565