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

Oct 22, 2025 - In addition, the budget provides $883,000 General Fund for the Community Reconciliation Unit, which provides community-based conflict resolution an d training services. The funding extends both initiatives through June 2026.
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Overview of State Funding for Affordable Housing Production [Publication Details]

Feb 27, 2025 - The LAO is unable to guarantee the accuracy of this translation and is therefore not liable for any inaccurate information resulting from the translation application tool. Choose your language:
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Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - The American Economic Review , 93 (4). Guerrieri, V., Hartley, D., & Hurst, E. (2013). Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics. Journal of Public Economics , Volume 100 (C), 45 –60 . Gyourko, J., & Linneman, P. (1990).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

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

Feb 20, 2019 - The state has carried out such a strategy for years with limited results. In addition, past state attempts to offer rewards to encourage communities to approve housing provide little assurance that such an approach will result in significantly more home building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - 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.   Glossary of Housing and Homelessness Programs Programs are supported by state resources and administered by the state unless otherwise noted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

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, spending, and
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The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - This could result in youths experiencing negative legal outcomes, such as becoming more invo lved in the criminal or juvenile justice systems —or for longer periods of time —than they otherwise would.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget package tasks HCD with creating criteria to identify pro-housing policies that reflect differences between rural, urban, an d suburban jurisdictions. Subscribe | California State Legislature | Online Voter Registration | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Legislative Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 | (916) 445-4656
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How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - As a result, many renters who were out of work earlier in the pandemic may now be working again and able to stabilize their household finances. On the other hand, 1. 4  m illion workers remain unemployed and recent surges in the pandemic have resulted in a new round of tightened public health orders, which could have financial ramifications on renters and lead to further accrual of rental debt.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

Feb 9, 2022 - In addition, the budget provided $4  million one ‑time General Fund to support further development of HDIS, which would allow the state to access and compile more standardized data collected by CoCs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521