The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - To receive state funding, ESEs provide training and paid employment to qualified indi viduals, including homeless individuals, formerly incarcerated individuals, and youth who are neither working nor in school.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization [Publication Details]

Feb 25, 2025 - In this post, we provide background on state agencies in California government in general; the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing (BCSH) Agency, in particular; and the process for reorganizing state government. Next, we describe our understanding, based on discussions with the administration and available information at this time, of the Governor’s intent to reorganize BCSH.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - Historically, the state largely has left funding and policy matters regarding housing and homelessness to local jurisdictions. In response to the state ’s housing and homelessness crisis, however, in recent years, the Legislature has increased its focus on these issues —both through state funding (such as for homelessness-related grants) and the policy process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness [Publication Details]

Oct 19, 2023 - The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4808

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 19, 2023 - The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness The 2023-24 California Spending Plan Housing and Homelessness Significant, Prior-Year Funding Augmentations Generally Maintained.   Previously enacted budgets authorized significant, albeit primarily one-time and temporary, funding for housing and homelessness, including authorizing some spending actions for 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4808

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - Housing and Homelessness Programs for Veterans and Others With Behavioral Health Needs Many Individuals Experiencing Homelessness Also Have Behavioral Health Needs … Although housing affordability is the most significant factor in the state ’s homelessness crisis, there are many individuals experiencing homelessness who also have behavioral health needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2023-24 Budget: Updates on Recent Housing and Homelessness Augmentations and Overview of Proposed Budget Changes [Publication Details]

Mar 29, 2023 - The 2023-24 Budget: Updates on Recent Housing and Homelessness Augmentations and Overview of Proposed Budget Changes [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4754

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Federal law requires that 75  percent of these funds go to programs targeting out ‑of ‑school youth ages 16 ‑ to 24 ‑years old —including individuals who have dropped out of school, who have been justice ‑involved, who are or have been in the foster care system, or who are homeless —and that 20  percent be used specifically to support work experience, such as for stipends, paid internships, and wages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

Recent Homelessness Augmentations and Oversight [Publication Details]

Feb 22, 2023 - Recent Homelessness Augmentations and Oversight [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4696

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Many  of the spending solutions in natural resources and environment, transportation, and housing and homelessness are subject to this trigger restoration  language. $2.6   Billion in Spending Reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662