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

Oct 22, 2025 - BCSH = Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency; CHHA = California Housing and Homelessness Agency; Cal ICH = California Interagency Council on Homelessness; and HDFC = Housing Development and Finance Committee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Congressional districts in California. [Ballot]

Dec 29, 2025 - House of Representatives (House). Each member of the House represents an area of the state called a congressional district. The U.S. Census is used by (1)  the federal government to determine how many seats in the House are apportioned to each state and (2)  states to draw new congressional district maps every ten years to reflect their number of House representatives and where people live.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-031

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Home Safe provides homelessness prevention and housing interventions to support safety and housing stability for individuals served by the local APS agency. 2025-26 DSS Housing and Homelessness Spending Plan Makes One-Time Augmentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/7

Proposition 50 [Ballot]

Nov 4, 2025 - House of Representatives (House). Each of the 50 states is represented by 2 senators, with 100 senators in total. The House has 435  members. The number of representatives in the House for each state depends on how many people live in that state.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=50&year=2025

Housing assistance program for certain University of California employees. [Ballot]

Oct 27, 2025 - Housing assistance program for certain University of California employees. [Ballot] Pursuant to Elections Code Section 9005, we have reviewed the proposed constitutional initiative pertaining to a housing assistance program for certain University of California (UC) employees (A.G.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-018

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

Feb 14, 2022 - Affordable Housing Package Primarily Expands Existing State Programs. The  Governor proposes $1  billion in one ‑time General Fund over the next several years for affordable housing  development. State Low Income Housing Tax Credits Background State Low ‑Income Housing Tax Credit Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

Time limits, environmental reviews, and judicial reviews for certain types of infrastructure projects. [Ballot]

Dec 10, 2025 - CEQA applies to many types of public and private sector projects —from housing development to habitat restoration —if they have the potential to affect the environment and require “discretionary ” public approval (where the agency must evaluate the project and exercise judgment).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-023

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - For more information about how this legislation —as well as Chapter  650 of 2025 (SB  158, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), which makes some refinements to the CEQA-related changes —affect housing development, please see our post, The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness, and Local Government .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2022-23 Budget: Student Housing

Apr 8, 2022 - Many UC, CSU, and CCC campuses are located in areas with particularly constrained housing markets and relatively high housing costs. Efforts to construct housing in these areas —whether on ‑campus student housing or off ‑campus housing —will help mitigate these constraints.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4589

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - These consist of the high ‑speed rail project, Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program, Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program, Low Carbon Transit Operations Program, and Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097