The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - State Administers ERF Competitive Grants for Local Jurisdictions. In 2021-22, the Legislature created the ERF program and charged Cal ICH with administering it. The purpose of ERF is to provide competitive grants to cities, counties, and CoCs to address “critical encampment concerns ” in their communities and transition individuals to “safe and stable housing, ” with a focus on permanent housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Oct 22, 2025 - Provisional language exempts the department from having to go through the state ’s contracting process to obtain a vendor to run the initiative, but includes language stating legislative intent that any future funding for the program use a competitive-bid process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Under this program, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) provides competitive grants to local entities to increase behavioral health infrastructure, predominantly by constructing, acquiring, or renovating facilities for community behavioral health services (contingent on these local entities providing matching funds and committing to providing funding for ongoing services).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521