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

Oct 22, 2025 - Under the California Dream for All model, borrowers do not make any payments on their downpayment loan until the home is sold or paid off. At tha t time, they will owe the original loan amount plus a certain percentage of the increase in home value.
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 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

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

May 12, 2021 - Although we do not have data on TOT collections during the pandemic, there is clear evidence that travel declined significantly. Consequently, TOT collections also likely dropped. Local governments that rely more heavily on TOT revenues —meaning TOT makes up a larger share of overall revenue sources —likely have seen larger revenue declines than those that rely on other revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

May 5, 2025 - Often when the state decides to suspend a mandate through the budget process, it will do so to avoid paying costs for one year on a prospective basis. In those cases, the suspension also makes the required activity optional for local governments to conduct for that forthcoming year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Should it become clear that there are not benefits of providing youths with legal counsel at this stage of the juvenile justice process —or that the benefits of doing so do not justify the costs —the Legislature could suspend the mandate at that time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Like the point-in-time count, these annual numbers from HDIS also are undercounts, primarily because the HDIS data do not include people experiencing homelessness who did not access any services (and thus did not get recorded in a CoC data system) —or accessed services from a provider who is not part of a CoC (such as veterans experiencing homelessness who received services exclusively from the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 2, 2023 - (State laws established at the request of local governments do not create a state-reimbursable mandate.) At the time, the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors opposed the legislation. Commission Determined Chapter  781 Created a State-Reimbursable Mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Similarly, new housing that is built in areas that are expected to face hig h wildfire risks will encounter greater threats, particularly if they do not incorporate defensible space and home hardening approaches, such as fire ‑resistant siding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

May 30, 2025 - CSM ’s Estimated Statewide Cost to Reimburse Local Governments: Between $351,870 and $557,715. Governor ’s Proposal Suspends Mandates for Time Period in Question, Does Not Reimburse Local Governments for Their Past Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

May 5, 2025 - In this budget post, we discuss a municipal stormwater mandate issued by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board in 2009 for local governments in Orange County.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5039