The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - Department of Defense-authorized educational program designed to provide elementary- and secondary-aged students with supplemental education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art and design, and mathematics (STEAM).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

Updating the California Necessities Index

Aug 14, 2025 - We consider the most common price indices specific to California: the California Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CA CPI ‑U) and the California Consumer Price Index for Wage and Clerical Workers (CA CPI ‑W).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5065

Updating the California Necessities Index [Publication Details]

Aug 14, 2025 - Recent changes were made to the publication of statistics required to calculate the California Necessities Index, which is used to adjust certain benefit rates and cost-of-living adjustments. In this brief, we provide details on the changes and evaluate alternatives for the index that require only currently available data and conform to the original intent of the index.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5065

Home Price Update: October 2021 [EconTax Blog]

Nov 18, 2021 - Home Price Update: October 2021 [EconTax Blog] Home Price Update: October 2021 November 18, 2021 Brian Uhler Home prices are important to the California economy for a number of reasons. In the short and medium terms, home price increases often drive construction activity, which in turn spurs employment growth in a wide range of sectors.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/714

Home Prices Update: September 2021 [EconTax Blog]

Oct 20, 2021 - Home Prices Update: September 2021 [EconTax Blog] Home Prices Update: September 2021 October 20, 2021 Brian Uhler Home prices are important to the California economy for a number of reasons. In the short and medium terms, home price increases often drive construction activity, which in turn spurs employment growth in a wide range of sectors.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/706

California's Cooling Housing Market [EconTax Blog]

Aug 30, 2022 - California's Cooling Housing Market [EconTax Blog] Brian Uhler From the summer of 2020 to the spring of 2022, California home prices rose at a pace not seen since the mid-2000s housing boom. While several factors contributed to booming home prices, a primary driver was historically low interest rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/749

Net Taxpayer Outmigration Increased During 2017-2019 [EconTax Blog]

Jul 6, 2021 - The next figure shows the ratio of the typical home price in California to the typical home price in the United States since 2004. As the figure shows, the state ’s relative housing costs rose in the middle of the last decade, which was soon followed by increasing outflows from California.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/675

Sales Tax Exemption for Bunker Fuel

Nov 19, 2025 - Maritime Fuel Prices. According to Ship & Bunker , the average price of marine gas oil (a major type of maritime fuel) at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach was $781 per metric ton in October 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5094

California Housing Affordability Tracker (4th Quarter 2025) [EconTax Blog]

Jan 24, 2024 - Prices Grew Rapidly from 2020 to 2022... As shown in the figure above, California home prices grew very rapidly from 2020 to 2022, with mid-tier home prices increasing by about 14  percent per year and bottom-tier home prices increasing by about 15  percent per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/793

California Housing Affordability Tracker (4th Quarter 2025) [EconTax Blog]

Jan 24, 2024 - Prices Grew Rapidly from 2020 to 2022... As shown in the figure above, California home prices grew very rapidly from 2020 to 2022, with mid-tier home prices increasing by about 14  percent per year and bottom-tier home prices increasing by about 15  percent per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/793