The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Interrogations can have significant implications on outcomes for youths in the juvenile justice system. As discussed above, the information collected through an interrogation can be used to file a petition in juvenile court.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Likewise, people will stay homeless, or be at risk of homelessness, until they can find stable housing they can afford. Figure  1 shows that since 2019-20, the state has provided about $37  billion in funding for housing- and homelessness-related programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Feb 28, 2022 - A subset of SCO ’s audit reductions to Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges mandate claims still are being challenged or are within the time frame when they could be challenged by claimants through “incorrect reduction claim ” processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

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

May 5, 2025 - Specifically, the state can suspend the mandate for one year, meaning local governments are not required to comply, and the state does not provide funding for related costs. The sta te also can modify the mandate to reduce costs —for example, by easing its requirements or making them optional.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Accordingly, the Legislature could consider how it can encourage new homes to be built with climate resilience in mind, when feasible. The state imposes certain requirements for how housing must be built through the adoption of statewide building codes, which local governments can then strengthen based on their own priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - This, in turn, can lead to more diseased, dying, and dead trees, which can exacerbate the severity of wildfires by providing more combustible  fuels. According to the state ’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment , by 2100, the frequency of extreme wildfires burning over 25,000 acres could increase by nearly 50 percent.
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 picture will beco me more clear next year when the Legislature considers the state ’s 2022 ‑ 23 b udget after the SCO has published local governments ’ 2019 ‑20 financial data and clearer still when the Legislature considers the state ’s 2023 ‑ 24 b udget after the SCO has published local governments ’ 2020 ‑21 financial data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Until the pandemic is behind us and jobs can fully return, some renters may continue to accrue rental debt and face a risk of homelessness or housing instability. How Has COVID‑19 Affected Homeowners?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

Feb 9, 2022 - The administration is proposing an augmentation on many orders of magnitude above what has been previously authorized for the program b efore the initial funding is released and the performance of the program can be assessed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

Feb 14, 2022 - The program helps to preserve affordable mobilehome parks by offering loans (1)  so a resident organization, nonprofit entity, or local public agency can purchase (convert) a mobilehome park; (2)  for rehabilitation or relocation of a purchased park; and (3)  so low ‑income residents can purchase a share or space in a converted park or to pay for the cost to repair low ‑income residents ’ mobilehomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535