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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget provides $120  million one-time General Fund for the Multifamily Housing Program (MHP), HCD ’s flagship affordable housing program. Of this amount, 10  percent is set aside for California tribes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - Often when the state decides to suspend a mandate through the budget process, it will do so to avoid paying costs for one year on a prospective basis. In those cases, the suspension also makes the required activity optional for local governments to conduct for that forthcoming year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Program Currently Is in Its Fourth Year of Funding … Figure  2 shows that, after an initial General Fund appropriation of $50  million in 2021-22, the Legislature has provided one-time amounts for ERF each year since.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - For some hazards, such as sea‑level rise, maps showing the areas that are anticipated to be inundated under various possible future scenarios are widely available, although the time horizon for when the changes will occur is uncertain.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing [Publication Details]

Apr 5, 2022 - This report focuses on how a changing climate is affecting the housing sector and key issues the Legislature faces in responding to those impacts. This is one of a series of reports summarizing how climate change will impact different sectors across California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4584

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Background Arrested Youths Have Rights to Prevent Self-Incrimination. After a youth suspected of a crime is arrested, law enforcement may want to interrogate the youth to gather information related to the crime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - For a more detailed discussion of the administration ’s rationale —which also applied to the mandate addressed in the Governor ’s January budget proposal —and our corresponding assessment, please see our recent post .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Additional research suggests that 15 wastewater treatment plants in California will be exposed to flooding with three feet of sea‑level rise, growing to 36 facilities with six feet of sea‑level rise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues [Publication Details]

Apr 5, 2022 - This report contains four primary sections: (1) a description of the five key climate hazards affecting California, (2) the major ways those hazards impact sectors across the state, (3) significant existing state‑level efforts underway to address climate change impacts, and (4) key issues for the Legislature to consider in response to these impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4575