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The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare
In 2021-22 and 2022-23, BFH received large one-time augmentations ($92.5 million in each year, available for expenditure over a few years) that significantly expanded overall funding for the program and resulted in a number of additional counties newly participating in the program. Specifically, 53 counties and 25 tribal entities now participate in the program, compared to 12 counties that participated when the program began in 2016. Due in part to various implementation challenges, including difficulties finding available affordable and safe housing for eligible families, expenditures to date have been lower than anticipated. Based on information shared by the administration during initial May Revision hearings, our understanding is that as of March 2024, there is $87.5 million General Fund remaining for BFH from the 2022-23 one-time augmentation. The administration proposes to reduce this amount by $80 million, leaving around $7.5 million from the 2022-23 allocation (and around $20 million remaining from the one-time 2021-22 allocation) for grantees to continue the program in the current year and budget year. Because the program does not have an ongoing allocation, the program would end once remaining current funding expires June 30, 2025. Although the proposed reduction likely will mean that many grantees will need to cease program operations sooner—and there will be fewer families able to access the program—than previously anticipated, the funding always has been one time in nature. One aspect we are working with the administration to better understand is whether certain counties or grantees may be expending funds more quickly than others, and whether there are opportunities to reallocate any remaining dollars across counties to maximize program utilization.
Permanent Foster Care Rates Structure Proposal
For more background on foster care rates under CCR and context for this proposal, please refer to our previous analysis.
Updated Trailer Bill Language (TBL) Seems Responsive to Some Stakeholder Feedback. After publishing the initial TBL proposal in March 2024, DSS conducted around 15 feedback sessions to engage stakeholders on various elements of the new proposed rates structure. Stakeholders shared significant feedback, particularly related to the new program elements proposed for the rates structure, namely the strengths building and immediate needs components.
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The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program
The Department of Social Services recently stated that the primary drivers of this steady caseload decline are (1) overall program attrition from the disabled population and (2) slower caseload growth due to fewer individuals meeting income and asset eligibility thresholds. To further understand these potential drivers, we have reached out to the department to ask for data regarding the average number of applicants, average applicant processing time, most common reasons for applicant denials, and other factors. We will provide further comments at the time of the May Revision if necessary.

Governor’s January Budget Includes Federal SSI COLA Estimates and Holds 2024-25 SSP Grants Unchanged. Figure 3 shows how 2022-23 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels compare to 2023-24 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels and the administration’s estimates of the 2024-25 SSI grant increase. The projected increases to maximum SSI/SSP grant levels in 2024-25 are due to the estimated federal SSI COLA.

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SSI/SSP Monthly Maximum Grant Levelsa

2022‑23 (Actual)

2023‑24 (Actual)

2024‑25 (Projected)

Maximum Grant—Individuals

SSI

$914.00

$943.00

$966.00

SSP

219.73

239.94

239.94

 Totals

$1,133.73

$1,182.94

$1,205.94

Percent of federal poverty levelb

93.31%

94.26%

92.50%

Maximum Grant—Couples

SSI

$1,371.00

$1,415.00

$1,449.00

SSP

556.62

607.83

607.83

 Totals

$1,927.62

$2,022.83

$2,056.83

Percent of federal poverty levelb

117.30%

118.76%

116.24%
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The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan
As Cal ICH reviews applications, their scoring system prioritizes funding for applications that (1) demonstrate a commitment to collaborate with local and state partners to resolve encampment issues; (2) address encampments with 50 or more occupants; and (3) reflect a diverse range of communities across the state, including rural, urban, and suburban communities. Cal ICH is expected to provide award notifications in February 2022. 
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2021‑22 Budget Established Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BH‑CIP). The 2021‑22 budget package included $755.7 million in 2021‑22, $1.4 billion in 2022‑23, and $2.1 million in 2023‑24 to establish BH‑CIP. Under this program, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) provides competitive grants to local entities to increase behavioral health infrastructure, predominantly by constructing, acquiring, or renovating facilities for community behavioral health services (contingent on these local entities providing matching funds and committing to providing funding for ongoing services). 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. Certain portions of the total amounts discussed above for this program are set aside for more specific purposes or targeted at more specific populations. Specifically, funding is reserved for the establishment of mobile behavioral health crisis teams and for community behavioral health facilities targeted at children and youth. Although the administration indicates that BH‑CIP could support people experiencing homelessness with behavioral health conditions, the funding is not limited to this population, nor is there an established set‑aside or strategy to target people experiencing homelessness. 
Since Approval, DHCS Has Developed Funding Plan and Key Program Details. When BH‑CIP was approved, several key implementation details were not fully developed yet. These outstanding details concerned (1) the funding plan, (2) what requirements local entities would need to meet to apply for and obtain funds, and (3) what the ultimate match requirement from local entities would be.
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2001 Budget Analysis: Housing and Community Development (2240)
Self-help housing
2.0
2.1
2.1
 Multifamily Housing
Base program
$11.0
$188.0
$31.0
Downtown Rebound:
Project loans
—
22.6
3.0
Local government planning grants
—
2.4
1.4
 Homeless
Emergency Housing Assistance Program:
Operating grants
$2.8
$14.0
$14.0
Capital grants
—
25.0
—
 Other Programs
Code enforcement incentives
—
$5.0
—
Interregional Partnership Pilot
—
5.0
—
Child Care Facilities
—
16.0
—
Central Valley Infrastructure Grants
—
—
$20.2
Predevelopment loans
$1.5
1.5
4.0
 Totals
 $20.8
 $538.1

$294.2
 a This column shows the appropriations for these programs. The expenditures of these funds will
occur over 2000-01 and 2001-02.

Local Government Incentives 
Chapter 80, Statutes of 2000 (AB 2864, Torlakson), created the Jobs-Housing Balance Improvement Program in an effort to
increase local housing and economic development activity. The 2000-01 budget appropriated $110 million for three components of
the program.
Incentive Grants. The 2000-01 budget provided $100 million to make "incentive payments" to local governments intended to
increase housing production. The program is scheduled to make payments based on the level and type of housing permits issued in
a jurisdiction during calendar year 2001. As discussed in more detail below, the Governor has proposed augmenting the program
by $200 million and making payments based on housing production in both 2001 and 2002.
Economic Development Grants. Another component of the Jobs-Housing Balance Program will make $5 million available to
local governments to develop or implement economic development strategic plans in order to attract businesses to their
2001 Budget Analysis:California Spending on Long-Term Care Services
Several of the projects also are consistent with the mandates of the Olmstead decision, which found that the unjustified institutionalization of people with
disabilities constitutes discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The court's decision therefore compels states to review available alternatives
to institutional care for individuals with disabilities. Two of the Governor's budget proposals seek to identify individuals currently receiving institutional care
(in nursing facilities and in county-operated IMDs) for placement in a community setting. A third proposal would advance compliance with the Olmstead ruling
by seeking to develop an assisted living Medi-Cal waiver program that also might offer an alternative to institutional care for some individuals.
At this time, we have no issues with the Governor's proposals to implement an assisted living waiver, expand the Linkages program, conduct elder abuse public
awareness and senior wellness education campaigns, and expand oversight of adult day health care centers. We discuss our proposed modifications of the other
budget proposals below.
State May Be Eligible for Federal Grants to Fund New Projects 
We recommend that funding for the Institutions for Mental Diseases transition pilot project be reduced by $333,000 from the General Fund, with a
corresponding increase in federal funds by $333,000, due to the availability of federal grant funds for such projects. We also recommend approval of the
funding requested for pilot projects to expand community options for long-term care, but propose that the federal funding appropriation be increased by
$833,000 because of the availability of federal grant funding for expansion of such projects. Finally, we recommend that the state Health and Human
Services Agency report at the time of budget hearings on state activities to apply for these federal grants. (Reduce Item 4440-101-0001 by $333,000,
increase Item 4440-101-0890 by $333,000, and increase Item 4260-001-0890 by $833,000.)
New Federal Grant Programs. The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the agency that administers the federal Medicaid program, recently
announced two grant programs providing collectively more than $65 million to states for projects that would allow persons with disabilities and chronic
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REAP 2.0 is a flexible program that will accelerate progress towards our state housing goals and climate commitments through a strengthened partnership between the state, its regions, and local entities. REAP 2.0 funds will accelerate infill housing development, reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT), increase housing supply at all affordability levels, affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH), and facilitate the implementation of adopted regional and local plans to achieve these goals.REAP 2.0 is administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in collaboration with the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR), the Strategic Growth Council (SGC), and the California Air Resources Board (CARB).REAP 2.0 provides a $600 million investment to advance implementation of adopted regional plans by funding planning and development activities that accelerate infill housing and reductions in per capita VMT.This new program was established as part of the 2021 California Comeback Plan under AB 140.

Eligible ApplicantsREAP 2.0 Funding Allocations and Eligible Applicants:       MPO Allocations (510 million)      Rural & Tribal (30 million)      Higher Impact Transformative (30 million)      Government Administration (30 million) Most of the program’s funding (85 percent, or $510 million) will flow directly to the state’s 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), and the MPOs may suballocate a portion of the funds to eligible entities (cities, counties, transit/transportation agencies) in their metropolitan region. The remaining funds are split into a set aside for Tribal entities and for eligible entities in smaller counties in non-MPO regions (5 percent, or $30 million), as well as for a Higher Impact Transformative set aside for all eligible entities (5 percent, or $30 million).Eligible ActivitiesThis is a flexible program.
The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan
One time

HCD 

HEAP

500 

One time

HCFCb

Total

$2,500 

2019‑20

HHAPP Round 1

$650 

One time

HCFC 

COVID‑19 Emergency Homelessness Funding

100 

One time

HCFC 

Project Roomkey

50 

One time

DSS 

Total

$800 

2020‑21

Homekey Program 

$800 

One time

HCD 

HHAPP Round 2

300 

One time

HCFC

Project Roomkey

62 

One time

DSS 

Total

$1,162 

2021‑22

Homekey Program

$1,450 

Temporaryc 

HCD 

HHAPP Round 3

1,000 

Temporaryd 

HCFC 

Community Care Expansion Program

805 

One time

DSS 

Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program

756 

Temporarye 

DHCS

CalWORKs Housing Support Program Expansion

190 

Temporaryf 

DSS 

Project Roomkey

150 

One time

DSS 

Housing and Disability Advocacy Program Expansion

150 

Temporaryg 

DSS 

Bringing Families Home Program Expansion

93 

Temporaryh 

DSS 

Home Safe Program Expansion

93 

Temporaryi 

DSS 

Encampment Resolution

50 

One time

HCFC 

Total

$4,737 

aAll fund sources. 
bHCFC is now the California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
cThe budget also authorized $1.3 billion in 2022‑23 for the Homekey Program. 
dThe budget also authorized $1 billion in 2022‑23 for HHAPP Round 4. 
eThe budget also authorized $1.4 billion in 2022‑23 and $2.1 million in 2023‑24 for the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program.
fThe budget also authorized $190 million in 2022‑23 for the CalWORKs Housing Support Program Expansion.