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 - Because the California Constitution does not require the state to reimburse local governments for costs to comply with federal law, disagreements have arisen over the years about whether all of the requirements in a given water quality permit are specifically required by federal law or whether they impose ad ditional requirements from the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - While the 2019 ‑20 budget provided MIP $500 million General Fund over four years, subsequent budget reversions associated with the COVID ‑19 pandemic made only $250 million available to the program over two years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Setting clear expectations through statute and establishing reporting requirements to facilitate oversight over the state ’s progress towards addressing homelessness will be critical. Forthcoming information from the Homelessness Landscape Assessments and improvements to HDIS could help the Legislature make better ‑informed budget decisions in future fiscal years and exercise stronger oversight over  budget actions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

May 2, 2023 - Going forward, these costs typically will be incurred over three fiscal years every ten years. The commission estimates that the costs for the next redistricting cycle, following the 2030 U.S. Census, will grow for inflation and be incurred in 2029-30, 2030-31, and 2031-32.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Moreover, 2022 already experienced the driest consecutive January and February in the Sierra Nevada, based on records dating back over 100 years. Droughts have widespread impacts across the state, including mandatory water use restrictions, reductions in agricultural crop production, over ‑pumping of groundwater —which damages infrastructure from land sinking and dries up domestic wells in some communities —and degraded habitats for fish and wildlife.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, over the past decade, six out of ten of the state ’s fastest growing counties have been in the Central Valley and Inland Empire, which are regions that are a comparatively high risk of excessive heat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 28, 2022 - Since 2016, when the court decision found implementation decisions over federal stormwater laws can be state ‑reimbursable mandates, we understand that the water boards have been trying to design permits in a way that minimizes creation of future state ‑reimbursable mandates while also continuing to enforce state and federal water quality laws.
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 - These changes could affect the value of commercial property and over time lead to deceleration in local government property tax revenue growth. These unknowns create an unprecedented degree of uncertainty about the economic outlook of local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428