The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - While complete data for 2024 are not yet available as of this writing, through September 30, 2024, about 310,000 people (unduplicated) had been served. Like the point-in-time count, these annual numbers from HDIS also are undercounts, primarily because the HDIS data do not include people experiencing homelessness who did not access any services (and thus did not
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 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - For example, the Commission estimates how many youths would require legal counsel before the waiver of Miranda rights and prior to an interrogation by using annual arrest data. Although data specifically on how many youths ages 16 and 17 were subject to an inter rogation would be preferable, such data are not available statewide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

May 12, 2021 - The state will have limited insight into which local governments have been most affected by the pandemic until after the SCO publishes additional years of local government financial data. The picture will beco me more clear next year when the Legislature considers the state ’s 2022 ‑ 23 b udget after the SCO has published local governments ’ 2019 ‑20 financial
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

Mar 4, 2020 - We were not able to acquire data on the number of impasses before 2011 ‑12. This means that the data we have only reflect years when the economy was growing —a period of the economic cycle when government tends to have growing revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Cash, Food, and Medical Assistance Can Offset Housing Costs a (In Millions) Free and reduced price lunch 2,838 $4,097 a Where possible, we tried to identify funding targeting children and families. b Earned Income Tax Credit amounts reflect combination of federal tax year data and state fiscal year data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - Participating counties would be required to report workload and outcome data to DOF. In a 2022 report to the Legislature, DOF would use this data to estimate the extent to which SSCAP funding resulted in higher property tax collections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - However, administrative data from the state ’s Employment Development Department show that more than 4  m illion workers received UI benefits in April. Our review suggests an actual take ‑up rate that is well above 100  p ercent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

Common Claims About Proposition 13 - Introduction to Proposition 13 [Video]

Our report Common Claims About Proposition 13  examines some of these questions and which of them can be answered by the data available. A few of the questions from the report are answered here in video format by analysts Brian Uhler and Carolyn Chu . 
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=103&videoId=152

Common Claims About Proposition 13 - Are Similar Property Owners Taxed Differently Under Proposition 13? [Video]

Our report Common Claims About Proposition 13  examines some of these questions and which of them can be answered by the data available. A few of the questions from the report are answered here in video format by analysts Brian Uhler and Carolyn Chu . 
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=103&videoId=153