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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget provides $120  million one-time General Fund for the Multifamily Housing Program (MHP), HCD ’s flagship affordable housing program. Of this amount, 10  percent is set aside for California tribes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 5, 2025 - Often when the state decides to suspend a mandate through the budget process, it will do so to avoid paying costs for one year on a prospective basis. In those cases, the suspension also makes the required activity optional for local governments to conduct for that forthcoming year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - This can be seen in Figure  3 which shows how many new affordable housing units were approved each year under the Low ‑Income Housing Tax Credit Program (a key affordable housing finance source used as a component of most affordable developments) over the past two decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Program Currently Is in Its Fourth Year of Funding … Figure  2 shows that, after an initial General Fund appropriation of $50  million in 2021-22, the Legislature has provided one-time amounts for ERF each year since.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - For some hazards, such as sea‑level rise, maps showing the areas that are anticipated to be inundated under various possible future scenarios are widely available, although the time horizon for when the changes will occur is uncertain.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing [Publication Details]

Apr 5, 2022 - This report focuses on how a changing climate is affecting the housing sector and key issues the Legislature faces in responding to those impacts. This is one of a series of reports summarizing how climate change will impact different sectors across California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4584

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Background Arrested Youths Have Rights to Prevent Self-Incrimination. After a youth suspected of a crime is arrested, law enforcement may want to interrogate the youth to gather information related to the crime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - To do so, we first matched each zip code that received investment with another zip code in California that (1)  was eligible but did not receive New Market Tax Credit investments and (2)  had residents with similar incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - (See the technical appendix for more details.) Conclusion Addressing California ’s housing crisis is one of the most difficult challenges facing the state ’s policy makers. The scope of the problem is massive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

The 2020-21 Budget: Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II

Mar 4, 2020 - While the Commission ’s estimate seems reasonable, it is difficult to estimate what the state ’s costs likely will be in the future. The primary factor that affects the potential annual cost to the state is the number of impasses resulting in fact-finding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190