Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, adaptation costs for schools might include higher utility bills from increased reliance on air conditioning during extremely hot days, making necessary facility modifications, and purchasing additional computers and technology upgrades to potentially allow for temporary shifts to remote learning when wildfires make air quality unsafe to attend school.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

May 30, 2025 - In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed (permanently eliminating it or making it optional), suspended (rendering it inoperative for one year), modified, or funded in the annual Budget Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

May 5, 2025 - The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local governments when (1)  new state laws or regulations mandate that they implement a new program or higher level of service and (2)  the local government does not have offsetting revenues —such as fees or federal funds —available to cover the associated costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

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

Oct 22, 2025 - The reverted funds come from three sources: (1)  the Infill Infrastructure Grant (IIG) Program, (2)  IIG Catalytic Program, and (3)  Commercial Property Pilot Program. Savings were scored to 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Grants provided under this program fund a variety of community behavioral health facility types to treat individuals with varying levels of behavioral health needs. For example, funds could be used on (1) short‑term crisis treatment beds, (2) residential treatment facilities in which treatment typically lasts for a few months, or (3) longer‑term rehabilitative facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Additionally, a recent report estimated that four feet of flooding expected from sea‑level rise over the next 40 to 100 years could make 13,000 existing homes in the Bay Area uninhabitable, uninsurable, or undesirable places to live.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - This level is about even with the average level of delinquency from 2017 t o 2019, and significantly lower than the level during the last recession. Why Have Delinquencies Remained Low? As discussed earlier, federal actions to boost household incomes, as well as low unemployment among higher ‑income workers (who are most likely to be homeowners), have helped most homeowners weather the downturn.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

May 12, 2021 - However, there was substantially more variation in the level of federal funding received as a percentage of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues by cities than counties. For counties, federal funding represented between 3 p ercent and 49 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 l ocal revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428