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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget provides $2.4  million one-time General Fund for the Civil Right Department ’s California vs. Hate initiative. California vs. Hate is a non-emergency hotline and online portal that allows state residents to report hate crimes and hate incidents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Matching Funds. Applicants will be required to provide matching funds, with the match rate varying by the type of applicant (for example, a 10  percent match will be required for counties and cities, and a 5  percent match for tribes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - In January 2024 (the most recently available data), 187,000 people were counted as homeless —an all-time high for the state, and 36,000 (24  percent) more than were counted in January 2019. Two-thirds of those counted were unsheltered (such as people living on the street or in a park).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Not All Homeowners in Forbearance Have Missed Mortgage Payments. The federal forbearance program is available to all borrowers, not only those who are unable to make their mortgage payments. Under federal law, borrowers do not need to prove or document their inability to meet their mortgage payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - All four concern municipal stormwater permits issued by regional water quality control boards and costs incurred by local governments prior to 2018. The Governor ’s January budget proposal addressed the first mandate, proposing to retroactively suspend the mandate and not fund local governments ’ past costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

Feb 14, 2022 - In all, the AHSC Program has allocated nearly $2.5  billion GGRF over six rounds of funding through 2020 ‑21 and has contributed to the creation of 16,400  housing units. Across all six rounds, the projects are estimated to reduce pollutants in the air equivalent to getting about 90,000 cars off the road for one year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

May 5, 2025 - Hypothetically, if CSM approved all costs submitted by local governments in every test claim, the state could face —at most —costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In most cases when CSM approves a municipal stormwater test claim, however, it only partially approves costs (because it usually does not find all requirements to be state-reimbursable mandates).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - In order to provide equal and lawful representation of residents across all districts of a representative body for a jurisdiction, district boundaries of elective offices must be redrawn every ten years after the federal government releases the findings from the census.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - Moreover, depending on the amount of eligible costs subm itted by all state and local entities for reimbursement, the federal government may need to further increase the appropriation to DRF if it is to ensure that all affected governments receive full reimbursement for all eligible costs, as it did with the passage of the CARES Act.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

Feb 28, 2022 - Should all of SCO ’s remaining audit reductions remain unchallenged or upheld, however, the commission estimates that state costs for reimbursing this mandate could be as low as  $8.8   million. No Future Costs Anticipated for This Mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565