The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - In January 2024 (the most recently available data), 187,000 people were counted as homeless —an all-time high for the state, and 36,000 (24  percent) more than were counted in January 2019. Two-thirds of those counted were unsheltered (such as people living on the street or in a park).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing? [Publication Details]

Feb 20, 2019 - The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing? [Publication Details] The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing? Format: HTML Description: As part of the 2019‑20 Governor’s Budget, the administration proposes changing state oversight of local housing decisions and proposes offering rewards to cities and counties to encourage them to plan for and approve housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3938

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners? [Publication Details]

Jan 19, 2021 - Correction 1/19/21: Legend on Figure 3 corrected to match data. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4312

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

Feb 21, 2019 - Funding for HDAP remains available in 2019 ‑20. The administration should explain what experience from the pilot justifies permanently establishing HDAP in 2019 ‑20 when the initial funding still remains available for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - CTCAC received 110  applications for the tax credits authorized by the  2019 ‑20  budget. All of the 2019 ‑20 tax credits have been allocated. Of the 72 projects that received tax credits, 18 projects shared the $200  million set aside for mixed ‑income housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

Feb 20, 2019 - For both the expanded and new state tax credits, the Governor ’s budget assumes no reduction in revenues due to the tax credit in 2019 ‑ 20 o r in its multiyear budget plan. (While the credits could be awarded in 2019 ‑20, the credit could not be claimed unit the housing has been built.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

SB 1 Has Doubled Major Source of State Funding for Local Streets and Roads

Jan 24, 2020 - Three of the fuel tax increases went into effect on November 1, 2017 and include a (1)  12 cent per gallon increase to the gasoline excise tax, (2)  20 cent per gallon increase to the diesel fuel excise tax, and (3)  4  percent increase to the diesel sales tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - As shown in Figure  6 , from 2017 ‑18 through 2019 ‑20, the state averaged more than 1,600 schools closed due to wildfires annually, compared to an annual average of about 70 schools from 2008‑09 to 2016‑17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - As such, 2019 ‑20 is estimated. c Represents entire Medi ‑Cal budget amount, some of which includes assistance for individuals other than children and families. Due to data limitations, the amount attributable to children and families specifically is not available. d Proposal included in the 2019 ‑20 Governor ’s Budget.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985