Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Although uncertainty remains about the timing and magnitude of when and how these hazards and their resulting impacts will manifest, the science is conclusive that they will be part of California ’s future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - (While the federal government issued national eviction protections, the state ‑based actions generally provided a higher level of protection for renters from eviction.) Most significant have been the eviction protections for renters provided by the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020 (Chapter   37 o f 2020 [A B  3088 , Chiu]).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

The 2017-18 Budget: National Housing Trust Fund Staffing

Feb 23, 2017 - Given recent transitions at the federal level, however, there appears to be a chance discussions about future NHTF funding may be revived. Governor ’s Proposal. HCD requests $423,000 for 3 positions to administer the NHTF allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3580

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - However, there was substantially more variation in the level of federal funding received as a percentage of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues by cities than counties. For counties, federal funding represented between 3 p ercent and 49 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 l ocal revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - HDIS is a statewide data warehouse that aggregates and matches individual-level data collected and reported by the state ’s 44 Continuums of Care [CoCs]. (A CoC is a federally required regional planning and coordination body comprising local governments, nonprofit service providers, and other member entities focused on addressing homelessness in their area.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for the Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 20, 2019 - Figure  3 depicts the pervasiveness of affordability challenges among low ‑income households throughout the state and in the rest of the nation. The figure demonstrates that low ‑income households experience similar levels of rent burden across communities —suggesting that insufficient income creates housing affordability challenges even in low ‑cost communities that have a sufficient supply of housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - To assist the Legislature in its fiscal oversight role of this large and multiyear program, this post: (1) provides data on the size of the population of people experiencing homelessness in California and recent state spending on housing and homelessness; (2) describes the ERF program’s goals, funding, and reporting requirements; (3) provides an update on ERF grantee awards,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5007

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

Feb 21, 2019 - In addition to leading the nation with the highest number of homeless individuals, California has the highest proportion ( 69  p ercent) of unsheltered homeless individuals of any state in the nation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - In order to receive bond monies, a county had to expend $1 of county funds to receive $3 of bond monies —a three-to-one ratio of state-to-county money. The proportion of the bond monies available to each county depended on a formula that took into account each county ’s number of eligible, registered, and participating voters and number of polling places.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

The 2017-18 Budget: Local Update of Census Address Program Overview

Mar 23, 2017 - The administration cites the low take-up rate of the 2007 ‑08 grants as an indicator that the grants need to be increased in order to achieve better participation from cities and counties. Moreover, the administration believes city and county participation is particularly important because the Census Bureau will no longer be validating 100  percent of the national residential address list through fieldwork.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629