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

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2026-27 allocation is contingent on the enactment of future legislation aimed at enhancing accountability requirements for grantees, such as having a local encampment policy consistent with state guidelines and showing progress on housing-related performance metrics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 5, 2025 - Because the California Constitution does not require the state to reimburse local governments for costs to comply with federal law, disagreements have arisen over the years about whether all of the requirements in a given water quality permit are specifically required by federal law or whether they impose ad ditional requirements from the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - California has 12  percent of the total population in the U.S. but accounts for about one-quarter of the country ’s homelessness count. State ’s Data System Suggests Number of People Experiencing Homelessness Is Even Higher.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Specifically, while Latino workers represent about 38  percent of the state ’s overall workforce, they account for 60  percent of the workers in primarily outdoor ‑based industries. More Frequent Disruptions and Instability Climate Impacts Will Be Disruptive for California ’s Residents and Economy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Recent Housing and Homelessness Augmentations and Oversight [Publication Details]

Feb 15, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development, Assembly Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review, Assembly Committee on Health, Assembly Committee on Human Services,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4685

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - We hope that by shedding light on how COVID ‑19 has added to the financial stress of renters, we can inform policy solutions to help renters through this crisis. In particular, the state and local governments will soon have to determine how to allocate recently authorized federal funding for emergency rental assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

Feb 14, 2022 - Funding for the AHSC Program is provided from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), an account establish ed to receive cap ‑and ‑trade auction proceeds. While factors inherent in the cap ‑and ‑trade market means there is significant volatility in annual GGRF revenue, AHSC generally receives 20  percent of the proceeds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535