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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget provides $1.4  million General Fund for the department ’s Investigation, Enforcement, and Conciliation Enhancement program, which seeks to reduce wait times between intake of complaints and investigative appointments and to increase the number of successful settlements by investigators.
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 budget package contains a number of major actions in the area of agency reorganization, homelessness, housing, and other actions, which we describe in this post.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Homelessness in California For a number of reasons, identifying the number of Californians experiencing homelessness is difficult. Below, we provide estimates using two common methodologies. We then summarize state funding in recent years related to housing and homelessness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for Governor's Proposals to Address Homelessness

Feb 21, 2019 - Some approaches —such as rapid rehousing (short ‑term rent assistance, moving cost assistance, or help with housing search) or shelters —tend to be cheaper, can be deployed more quickly, and have lower barriers of entry for participants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

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

May 5, 2025 - The permit regulates discharges from municipal separate storm sewer systems and requires the applicable local governments to undertake a number of activities. In 2010, Orange County, Orange County Flood Control District, and 14 cities within Orange County filed a test claim with CSM contending that various sections of the 2009 permit represented state-reimbursable mandated activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Considering the State's Role in Elections - How Do Elections Work Today? [Video]

[Video] Search LAO Videos Considering the State 's Role in Elections May 3, 2017 These videos provide a follow up discussion of our March 30, 2017 report   The 2017-18 Budget: Considering the State's Role in Elections .
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=109

Considering the State's Role in Elections - What is the State’s Role in Elections? [Video]

[Video] Search LAO Videos Considering the State 's Role in Elections May 3, 2017 These videos provide a follow up discussion of our March 30, 2017 report   The 2017-18 Budget: Considering the State's Role in Elections .
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=109&videoId=170

Considering the State's Role in Elections - Should the State’s Role in Elections Change? [Video]

[Video] Search LAO Videos Considering the State 's Role in Elections May 3, 2017 These videos provide a follow up discussion of our March 30, 2017 report   The 2017-18 Budget: Considering the State's Role in Elections .
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=109&videoId=171

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - For example, the number of interrogations may fluctuate based on local policing decisions or changes in the number of youth arrests. Furthermore, statewide costs could be affected by other factors that remain uncertain, such as ch anges in the number of counties that choose to file reimbursable claims and the extent to which counties include law enforcement or indirect costs in their claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

Considering the State's Role in Elections - How Will Elections Change Under SB 450? [Video]

[Video] Search LAO Videos Considering the State 's Role in Elections May 3, 2017 These videos provide a follow up discussion of our March 30, 2017 report   The 2017-18 Budget: Considering the State's Role in Elections .
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=109&videoId=169