The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - LCI houses SGC, which coordinates work across various state departments and agencies and disburses grants to address statewide climate and land use issues such as extreme heat and sustainable communities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - In either case, it would likely want separate appointments for the Assembly and Senate so that each house could choose a board member to represent its interests. Conclusion State Governance Is Ripe for Reform.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - The other $87  million was for the construction phase of a previously approved student housing project. This EdBudget table lists all of the Proposition 2 projects funded in 2025-26. Districts Have Submitted Many New Project Proposals for 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System [Publication Details]

Mar 6, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System [Publication Details] Description: In this brief, we provide background on affordable housing and affordable housing funding programs, describe and analyze the Governor’s budget proposals related to affordable housing funding, and provide recommendations to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - Private Activity Bonds and Tax Credits Merit to Setting in Statute the Proportion of Private Activity Bonds for Affordable Housing. The amount of private activity bonds CDLAC has designated for affordable rental housing in recent years has varied somewhat —from a high of 93   percent to a low of 86   percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - In negotiating salary increases with their local unions, districts typically account for a number of factors, including the COLA the state is providing for apportionments, changes in housing and other costs for employe es, salary competitiveness, and the need to address non ‑salary cost pressures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - Legislative Interest in Comparing Grant Levels to Housing Costs. In recent years, the Legislature has been interested in understanding how SSI/SSP grant levels compare to housing costs in the state. DSS has recently compared maximum grant amounts for individuals and couples to county-level fair market rents (FMR).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - As we noted in our recent report Considering Medi‑Cal in the Midst of the Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape , the state likely could amend Proposition 35 with a three‑fourths vote in each house, so long as the changes are consistent with the purpose and intent of the measure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - Total UC debt service on state ‑approved academic facilities and certain student housing facilities increased from $324  million in 2015 ‑16 to $503  million in 2024 ‑25. Proposals Governor ’s Budget Includes Ongoing Increase in State Support for UC in 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, prison infrastructure could be a limiting factor, as some prisons in easier ‑to ‑recruit areas may lack the appropriate space to house more mental health patients (such as sufficient housing units with medication distribution rooms to house the EOP population).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134