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

Oct 22, 2025 - Of this amount, 10  percent is set aside for California tribes. MHP provides low-interest (0.42  percent) loans to developers for the construction and rehabilitation of rental housing for lower-income households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 30, 2025 - Additional details about the mandate are as follows: Time Period in Question: November 10, 2010 to December 31, 2017. CSM ’s Estimated Statewide Cost to Reimburse Local Governments: Between $238,301 and $334,104.
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 - If so, the Legislature could consider targeting these additional resources to those local governments that, based on the factors presented in this an alysis, are under the most fiscal pressure due to a combination of ( 1) d ecreased revenues, ( 2) i ncreased costs, and ( 3) r elatively lower allocations of state and federal relief funds thus far.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Mindful of this, our office collaborated with researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia to adjust key assumptions about ( 1)  r enter nonhousing costs, ( 2)  r enter savings rates, and ( 3)  s tatewide UI benefit amounts in their model to more accurately reflect economic conditions and policies in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

May 5, 2025 - Maintains Mandate From January 1, 2018 Forward. Because the Governor ’s proposed suspension would only concern the historic time period in question, the permit requirements would remain in effect as of January 1, 2018 and until the regional board adopts a new permit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Figure  1 shows that since 2019-20, the state has provided about $37  billion in funding for housing- and homelessness-related programs. The majority of this funding —which includes the state General Fund, special funds, voter-approved bonds, and certain federal funds —has been allocated to the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and Cal ICH.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Specifically, (1)  tribal entities will be required to provide 5  percent in matching funds; (2)  counties, cities, and nonprofits will be required to provide 10  percent in matching funds; and (3)  for ‑profit or private organizations will be required to provide 25  percent in matching funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Additionally, the Commission estimates that the annual costs for the mandate could range between $19,000 and $1  million starting in 2022-23. Governor ’s Budget Governor Funds Mandate Reimbursement Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, a  2015   economic assessment  by the Risky Business Project estimated that if current global GHG emission trends continue, between $8 billion and $10 billion of existing property in California is likely to be underwater by 2050, with an additional $6 billion to $10 billion at risk during high tide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575