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 - HDIS is a statewide data warehouse that aggregates and matches individual-level data collected and reported by the state ’s 44 Continuums of Care [CoCs]. (A CoC is a federally required regional planning and coordination body comprising local governments, nonprofit service providers, and other member entities focused on addressing homelessness in their area.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 5, 2025 - For municipalities, the act directs the water boards —through the state ’s delegated federal authority —to design stormwater discharge permits that address their specific local conditions, and to “require controls to reduce the discharge of pollutants to the maximum extent practicable. ” For example, permits might require cities to install storm drain filters in street gutters to catch trash before it enters the stormwater sewer.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Next, we revised the model ’s assumption that half of eligible unemployed workers receive UI benefits to match state UI benefit administrative records that show that a much higher share of workers have received UI benefits during the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

Feb 28, 2022 - For  municipalities, the act directs the water boards —through the state ’s delegated federal authority —to design stormwater discharge permits that address their specific local conditions, and to “require controls to reduce the discharge of pollutants to the maximum extent practicable. ” To satisfy the federal Clean Water Act, local governments must comply with the specific permit requirements established by the water boards when operating their local storm sewer systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

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

Feb 14, 2022 - The 2021 ‑22 budget provided HCD $45  million one ‑time American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act fiscal relief funds to expand the state excess sites program with funding for brownfield remediation, and budget ‑related legislation to expand the state excess sites program with local government matching grants that aim to incentivize further affordable housing development on excess lands.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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