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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was ordering more homeless camps to be cleared on state property Thursday.
In Los Angeles, one of the largest homeless encampments can be found under the 105 freeway, which is maintained by the California Department of Transportation, known as Caltrans.
Caltrans has cleared 11,000 homeless encampments since 2021 as the agency devotes an increasing amount of its resources to taking down tarp tents and makeshift kitchens alongside and under freeways.
Homeless encampment sweeps have contested effectiveness at mitigating the impacts of homelessness in communities. While they remove encampments from their immediate surroundings, often in response to crime complaints, research has shown that complaints remain at the same level 30 days after a sweep.
Newsom's order directs state agencies to act soon and follow the lead of the California Department of Transportation, known as Caltrans, which has removed 11,188 encampments and more than 248,000 ...
The camp had grown in size after Caltrans and Burlington Coat Factory cleared encampments on their properties. [31] In February 2022, the city moved around 30 people from an encampment along Roberts Lake Road back to the same city owned lot nearby, making it the first sanctioned encampment in the city's history.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order on Thursday directing officials of the state with the largest homeless population in the nation to start removing homeless encampments was met with ...
Department: California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Function: Tracks a catalog of information about bridges and viaducts on State-maintained roadways. Details: Stores information including bridge number, county, route, bridge name. May store information about planned maintenance, earthquake risk, and earthquake retrofit plans.