The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - This split, in turn, is based on SGC ’s practice of awarding up to $35   million per project (70   percent) for affordable housing and up to $15   million (30   percent) for transportation. Yet, there is no inherent policy rationale for that 70/30 split.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - The average number of service hours that will be provided to an estimated 875,344 IHSS recipients is projected to be 127 hours per month in 2026 ‑27 (up from 125.1 in 2025 ‑26). IHSS Costs Split Between Federal Government, State, and Counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - Finally, the state can transfer up to 10  percent of its annual TANF block grant to the SSBG, to be used for a variety of purposes, such as providing developmental services through Regional Centers. TANF and Related MOE Spending Involve More Than Just CalWORKs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - As shown in Figure  6, FMR takes up a significant portion or exceeds recipient grants in all counties. For an efficiency unit, FMRs are between 63  percent and 258  percent of the maximum SSI/SSP grant for individuals and between 42  percent and 157  percent of the maximum SSI/SSP grant for couples.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - In a series of posts , Comparing CalWORKs Take‑Up Rates Across Demographic Groups , we estimated the CalWORKs take‑up rate—or the percentage of eligible individuals who are actually enrolled in the program—to be about 60 percent in 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package includes up to $20  million for DOF to enter into one or more new contracts to implement operational improvements that allow the state to reduce state operations expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Fully reinstating the asset limit was expected to result in fewer people being eligible to receive IHSS and, at the time of May Revision, estimated to save $25.5  million General Fund in IHSS costs in 2025-26 (we note this estimate was later revised up by the administration).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - As such, we have tried to include the most up ‑to ‑date information in our analysis. However, as implementation proceeds, some of these challenges may resolve and others may emerge. Implementing EBPs Array of EBPs in State Plan Does Not Always Correspond to Counties ’ Prevention Needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - Application Also Suggested Using CalWORKs Take-Up Rate as Outcome Measure. The CalWORKs take-up rate is the percentage of eligible individuals who are actually enrolled in the program (our office previously published a series of posts on the CalWORKs take-up rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

Comparing CalWORKs Take-Up Rates Across Demographic Groups

Feb 14, 2023 - Comparing CalWORKs Take‑Up Rates by Demographic Groups Take ‑Up Rates Differ Between Families, Children, and Parents. In our last post , we estimated the CalWORKs take‑up rate among families at about 60 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4678