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

Oct 22, 2025 - In addition, trailer bill legislation creates new exemptions from CEQA requirements for various categories of projects, including specified “infill ” housing developments (such as certain projects on vacant land within an urban area), farmworker housing, rural health clinics, day care centers, food banks, broadband deployment in a right-of-way, and advanced manufacturing facilities (with each exemption type subject to various requirements and limitations).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 9, 2022 - However, certain types of spending, like some funding for capital outlay, are excluded from this limit. Some prior homelessness funding —such as General Fund spending on the Homekey Program —has met the SAL definition of capital outlay and has been excluded from the limit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

May 5, 2025 - Introduction This post begins by providing background about stormwater permit requirements, CSM ’s process for determining whether state-imposed requirements for local governments are mandates subject to state reimbursement, and how voter-approved Proposition  218 (1996) complicates local governments ’ ability to increase fees to cover these types of costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 12, 2021 - For example, some types of special districts, such as fire protection districts that provide emergency response, were directly involved in responding to COVID ‑19 and had associated costs, while other special districts, like mosquito and vector control districts, may have been less affected by COVID ‑19 and likely had more limited expenditure pressures as a result.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - The scale of climate change impacts on housing will vary geographically and across housing types. In many cases, impacts will be felt most acutely by low ‑income households who disproportionately live in (1)  areas of the state that will be exposed to higher risks and (2)  types of housing that are typically less resilient.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 14, 2022 - However, certain types of spending, like some funding for capital outlay, are excluded from this limit. Some prior housing funding —such as General Fund spending on IIG —has met the SAL definition of capital outlay and has been excluded from the limit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Since the focus of the state ’s program is on providing housing, grantees generally are limited to using non-ERF funds (such as local funds) for site restoration/clean-up activities. Beginning in 2023-24, budget bill provisional language has set aside ERF monies for local partnerships with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to address encampments fully or partially in a state right-of-way (such as state property adjacent to a freeway).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Feb 28, 2022 - However, when a state ‑reimbursable mandate results not from state law, but rather from an administratively established regulation, the Legislature is limited in its ability to mitigate the state ’s resulting fiscal  liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - In addition to episodic disruptions, some of the most affected industries and regions may need to make long ‑term adjustments to remain viable, forcing some workers to relocate, train to adopt new industry practices, or shift to new types of work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - The 2021 ‑22 Governor ’s Budget identifies his desire to continue some type of eviction protection past January 31, 2021, however, the budget does not provide details about an extension of the eviction moratorium.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312