Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, as we discuss in our recent report, Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California , one argument for providing state support for maintaining defensible space is that when homeowners fail to do so, it could increase the risk that nearby homes will ignite, thus imposing costs on the broader community and state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - The program helps to preserve affordable mobilehome parks by offering loans (1)  so a resident organization, nonprofit entity, or local public agency can purchase (convert) a mobilehome park; (2)  for rehabilitation or relocation of a purchased park; and (3)  so low ‑income residents can purchase a share or space in a converted park or to pay for the cost to repair low ‑income residents ’ mobilehomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Specifically, the program is intended to fund local demonstration projects that (1)  address the immediate crisis of experiencing unsheltered homelessness in encampments, (2)  position people living in encampments onto paths to safe and stable housing, and (3)  result in sustainable restoration of public spaces to their intended uses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For  example, in the San Francisco Bay Area alone, a recent study led by the Bay Conservation and Development Commission estimated that with an anticipated four feet of flooding in the region from sea‑level rise over the next 40 to 100 years, 13,000 existing housing units and 104,000 existing job spaces will no longer be usable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575