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

May 5, 2025 - (In addition, four of the six required activities were one time in nature and thus local governments have already completed them without cause to incur further costs.) …However, Multiple Additional Stormwater-Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - (In addition, some of the required activities were one time in nature and thus local governments have already completed them without cause to incur further costs.) …However, Multiple Additional Stormwater-Related Test Claims Pending at CSM.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

Feb 28, 2022 - Multiple Additional Stormwater ‑Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission. While not directly linked to this mandate, the commission has 37 pending test claims related to other stormwater permits issued by the state water boards dating back to 2009.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

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

May 12, 2021 - For example, the Department of Public Health has allocated more than $1. 5 b illion in federal funds to local public health jurisdictions to expand lab capacity; increase testing, contact tracing, surveillance, and epidemiology activities; improve data reporting; conduct targeted outreach to vulnerable communities; and manage distribution and administration of vaccinations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Nevertheless, the point-in-time count can serve as a useful indicator of broad homelessness trends over time. 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - This could result in youths experiencing negative legal outcomes, such as becoming more invo lved in the criminal or juvenile justice systems —or for longer periods of time —than they otherwise would.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

May 2, 2023 - Some of these activities are one time for each cycle. For example, providing one-time training for each member of the county redistricting commission. Other activities are recurring during the three fiscal years of the map-drawing process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

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

Feb 14, 2022 - The 2021 ‑22 budget provided $45  million one ‑time General Fund for MIP. Figure  5 depicts how S B  2 revenues for MIP have changed over  time. Update on MIP. The $300  million in funding awarded to date —$128  million S B  2 funding and $172  million General Fund —has contributed to the creation of 5,500 housing units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

Feb 9, 2022 - In addition, the budget provided $4  million one ‑time General Fund to support further development of HDIS, which would allow the state to access and compile more standardized data collected by CoCs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521