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 - The state budget has provided $227  million from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for LIWP since 2014, and the 2021 ‑22 budget package committed an additional $75  million total from the General Fund through 2024 (with $25  million in 2021 ‑22 dedicated exclusively to the farmworker housing component).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 14, 2022 - Furthermore, most of the continuous appropriations were established as part of the 2014 ‑15 budget, and legislative priorities may have changed over the last several years. If the Legislature were to determine that the AHSC Program were a much higher priority than other programs receiving GGRF revenue, the continuous appropriations could be reset accordingly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - With the exception of 2019, the years from 2014 through 2020 experienced the six highest average annual temperatures ever recorded in the state. Moreover, average summer temperatures in California were the hottest on record in 2021, breaking the previous June ‑through ‑August record set in 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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