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: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Encampment resolution is intended to be a “win/win ” both for people living in the encampment (in that they are brought inside with supports they need) and for the general public (which sees the encampment area returned to its original intended purpose, such as a park for recreation).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 2, 2023 - Census identifies (1)  the number of people who live in the United States and (2)  where people live across the country. The census shows changes in the number of people living in a jurisdiction and collects information regarding the demographics and characteristics of those people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - These communities tend to be home to large proportions of lower‑income households, due in part to historical housing discrimination practices that restricted which racial groups could live and purchase homes in the communities that contained larger and more developed water systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details] The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding Format: HTML Description: The Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) program provides grants for local communities to address homeless encampments by funding housing and other services to the people living there.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5007

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Additionally, the 2021 ‑22 funding was intended to fund demonstration projects which would inform best practices for addressing the needs of people living in unsheltered encampments, while simultaneously addressing the health and safety needs of the entire community.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - This is due in part to historical discriminatory practices that restricted which racial groups could live and purchase homes in the communities that contained larger and more developed water systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government [Publication Details]

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package contains a number of major actions in the area of agency reorganization, homelessness, housing, and other actions, which we describe in this post.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - While the state economy has experienced a modest rebound since that time, the pandemic continues to disrupt the lives of all Californians in small and large ways, from changing how we interact in our communities to the way we work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

May 12, 2021 - For instance, if there are broad, long ‑standing changes to where people chose to live and work, the pandemic could, over time, change the key economic drivers of a community. As an example, some employers may continue to provide their employees additional flexibility to work remotely even after the COVID ‑ 19 e mergency subsides.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428