The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - The purpose of encampment resolution is to provide outreach and other help to the people living in an encampment and to transition them to housing —either directly to permanent housing or to a short-term housing arrangement (such as an emergency shelter) while permanent housing is secured for them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

What Is a Mandate? - What Is a Mandate: An Overview [Video]

Determining which state requirements must be reimbursed —and which local governments must pay for on their own —is not always easy. To help explain these issues, we prepared two narrated presentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=42&videoId=43

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - A state grant program could help county assessors fund resource needs that may have been overlooked locally. In addition, if the grant program were to provide more funding to counties that pay a higher share of administrative costs, it could help to lessen intercounty disparities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

What Is a Mandate? - What Is a Mandate: Learning Through Examples [Video]

Determining which state requirements must be reimbursed —and which local governments must pay for on their own —is not always easy. To help explain these issues, we prepared two narrated presentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=42&videoId=42

Proposition 46 Housing Bond [Publication Details]

Feb 19, 2003 - The General Fund will pay an average of $157 million annually for 30 years to pay for the principal and interest of the bonds. We review the administration's proposal for implementing the bond's provisions and outline potential options for using the bond to help address the budget situation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/989

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Based on how these households ’ incomes change during the course of the pandemic, some households are estimated to have insufficient income to pay both monthly rent and other nonhousing costs. When this occurs, the model assumes these households do not pay their full monthly rent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

What Is a Mandate: An Overview [Publication Details]

Jan 16, 2007 - Determining which state requirements must be reimbursed—and which local governments must pay for on their own—is not always easy. To help explain these issues, we prepared two narrated presentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1534

What Is a Mandate: Learning Through Examples [Publication Details]

Jan 16, 2007 - Determining which state requirements must be reimbursed—and which local governments must pay for on their own—is not always easy. To help explain these issues, we prepared two narrated presentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1535

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - Additionally, the Commission estimates that the annual costs to the state to pay this reimbursable state mandate going forward could range between $605,000 and $1.3  million. Governor ’s Budget Governor Funds Mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - At the federal level, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) established standards for federal elections. To help state and local governments implement the requirements established under HAVA, the federal government provided funding to the states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786