Framework For Cap-And-Trade Investment Plan Needs Further Development

Sep 22, 2015 - Administration ’s Summary of Potential Investment Concepts Transportation and Sustainable Communities Public transit, affordable housing and sustainable communities (already get 60 percent appropriation) Active transportation Zero emission vehicles and equipment Zero emission vehicle charging and fueling infrastructure Innovative efficiency strategies for freight and passenger
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3298

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 18, 2021 - The current program is limited to low-income housing in investor-owned utility territories. This funding would be used to expand the program to market rate residential buildings in all areas of the state, including publicly owned utility territories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4463

Administration’s Cap-and-Trade Report Provides New Information, Raises Issues For Consideration

Apr 15, 2016 - In addition, cap-and-trade spending is often only a portion of the overall amount of funding for each project, such as for transit improvement projects and affordable housing developments. As a result, it can be difficult to assess what portion of the GHG reductions should be attributed to state funds versus other funding sources.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3445

Improving Outcomes for California Conservation Corpsmembers

Feb 9, 2018 - In addition, CCC generally prioritizes applicants who are homeless or in unstable housing situations for placements in residential centers. Most Corpsmembers Assigned to Nonresidential Centers. About 56  p ercent of the roughly 1, 450 c orpsmembers report to nonresidential centers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3742

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 17, 2019 - Under legislation passed in 2014, about 60  percent of annual auction revenue is continuously appropriated to high-speed rail (25  percent), affordable housing and sustainable communities (20  percent), transit and intercity rail capital (10  percent), and low carbon transit operations (5  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4103

The 2016-17 Budget: The State's Drought Response

Feb 5, 2016 - These federal drought monies have helped fund emergency support for drought –affected communities (including food, water, housing, and job training), and provided financial assistance for livestock producers who lost grazing or pasture land.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3343

Expanding Access to Safe and Affordable Drinking Water in California—A Status Update

Nov 10, 2020 - These trends are partially due to historical housing discrimination practices that restricted which racial groups could live and purchase homes in the incorporated cities that contained larger and more developed water systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4294

The Salton Sea: A Status Update

Aug 29, 2018 - Moreover, as the Sea shrinks it will increasingly leave formerly lakeside houses and boat docks stranded far from the water, further depressing their desirability, recreational utility, and res ale value.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3879

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - According to CalFire, 95 p ercent of SRA where there are houses is in a local fire district or served by a county fire department. State law requires jurisdictions to adopt defensible space ordinances if they have VHFHSZs within their boundaries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

Improving California's Forest and Watershed Management

Apr 4, 2018 - First, housing this funding within one department makes it more challenging to involve the other state departments that typically have a role in regulating forest health activities, such as CNRA, DFW, and SWRCB.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3798