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

Oct 22, 2025 - Budget Package Addresses State ’s Long-Standing CEQA Policy. The budget package included a number of notable policy changes aimed at speeding up and streamlining CEQA, which was originally enacted by the Legislature in 1970.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget package creates new incentives for cities and counties to adopt pro-housing policies. Cities and counties that adopt these policies would receive additional points in the scoring of their applications for certain state grant programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government [Publication Details]

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package contains a number of major actions in the area of agency reorganization, homelessness, housing, and other actions, which we describe in this post.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - As the Legislature crafts its homelessness package, allocating funding to homelessness programs excluded from the SAL could allow the state to allocate more funds to those programs than it otherwise could.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

Feb 14, 2022 - Assess How Governor ’s Housing Package Moves State Forward Towards Addressing Housing Goals. Collectively, the Governor ’s housing proposals would help build more housing across the state, however, precisely how much and where is unclear.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Significant Funding in 2021‑22 Budget Package . As summarized in Figure 7, the 2021‑22 budget package included $9.3 billion over three years—primarily from the General Fund—for a variety of activities to respond to climate impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - The state budget has provided $227  million from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for LIWP since 2014, and the 2021 ‑22 budget package committed an additional $75  million total from the General Fund through 2024 (with $25  million in 2021 ‑22 dedicated exclusively to the farmworker housing component).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate

May 27, 2016 - As part of the 2011 ‑12 budget package, the Legislature enacted a major shift —or “realignment ” —of state criminal justice, mental health, and social services program responsibilities and revenues to local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3478

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Under this funding package, cities and counties receive around $1. 5  b illion annually to fund maintenance of local streets and roads. The Governor ’s proposal to link these distributions for local streets and roads to communities ’ progress toward meeting their RHNA targets would create a significant, ongoing financial incentive for communities to plan for and approve housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

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

Feb 20, 2019 - In addition, the report suggests a package of changes to improve the state ’s existing long ‑term planning process for housing.) Other Housing Proposals. The Governor also introduces other proposals intended to remove barriers to affordable housing development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941