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

May 5, 2025 - In 2010, Orange County, Orange County Flood Control District, and 14 cities within Orange County filed a test claim with CSM contending that various sections of the 2009 permit represented state-reimbursable mandated activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board ’s Order in South Orange County. CSM determined that several of the requirements in the permit issued by the regional board in 2009 constitute state-reimbursable mandates for Orange County, Orange County Flood Control District, and the cities of South Orange County that are within the San Diego region.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

May 5, 2025 - In this budget post, we discuss a municipal stormwater mandate issued by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board in 2009 for local governments in Orange County.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5039

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - These risks could be higher for Black and Hispanic youths because they tend to be overrepresented in annual youth arrests. Unknown What Effects Legal Counsel at This Stage Has. In our review, we did not identify robust research on the effects of providing youths with legal counsel before the waiver of Miranda rights or interrogations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 augmentation will be the third round of funding for this program (with $500  million authorized in 2022-23 and $20  million in 2023-24). Funding for Affordable Housing. The budget provides $120  million one-time General Fund for the Multifamily Housing Program (MHP), HCD ’s flagship affordable housing program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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 Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - CTCAC received 110  applications for the tax credits authorized by the  2019 ‑20  budget. All of the 2019 ‑20 tax credits have been allocated. Of the 72 projects that received tax credits, 18 projects shared the $200  million set aside for mixed ‑income housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - While overall health effects from wildfire smoke still are being studied, a rough estimate suggests wildfire smoke in 2020 caused about 20 deaths per 100,000 adults over the age of 65. Researchers suggest that particulate matter in fire‑prone areas could roughly double by the end of the century, and that a 50 percent increase in wildfire smoke could increase deaths of older adults by an additional 9 to 20 per 100,000 people annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - However, beginning in 2008, the voters established the independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC) and made the CRC res ponsible for drawing and approving new district boundaries every ten years with the passage of Proposition  11 in 2008 and Proposition  20 in 2010.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

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

May 12, 2021 - Further, whereas the top quartile of counties received federal funds that represented at least 31 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues, the top quartile of cities received federal funds that represented at least 20 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428