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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget provides $1.4  million General Fund for the department ’s Investigation, Enforcement, and Conciliation Enhancement program, which seeks to reduce wait times between intake of complaints and investigative appointments and to increase the number of successful settlements by investigators.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

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 - Homelessness in California For a number of reasons, identifying the number of Californians experiencing homelessness is difficult. Below, we provide estimates using two common methodologies. We then summarize state funding in recent years related to housing and homelessness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - For example, the number of interrogations may fluctuate based on local policing decisions or changes in the number of youth arrests. Furthermore, statewide costs could be affected by other factors that remain uncertain, such as ch anges in the number of counties that choose to file reimbursable claims and the extent to which counties include law enforcement or indirect costs in their claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

May 2, 2023 - Every ten years, in years ending in the number zero, the U.S. 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

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Many observers, including our office, feared that a large number of these households would fall behind on rent or mortgage payments, leading to evictions and foreclosures. …But Renters Have Been Disproportionately Affected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Even with appropriate mitigations, there may be increasing numbers of structures lost to natural disasters —such as wildfires and floods —as a result of climate change. This likely will put continued upward pressure on residential property insurance rates and make insurance more difficult to obtain in a greater number of areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Applications will be assessed along a number of criteria, including: efforts to advance racial equity, financial viability, long ‑term operational sustainability, and comprehensive use of resources to serve the target population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521