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The executive order directs state agencies to remove homeless encampments from state land. That includes state parks and beaches, agency buildings, and highways and the areas beneath them.
Gov. Gavin Newsom issues an executive order requiring state agencies to remove homeless encampments in their jurisdictions and urging California's cities to follow suit.
Folsom police Chief Rick Hillman said that the department’s homeless outreach (HOT) team will continue to work on clearing the 13 known encampments still standing after weeks of tent city removals.
California is home to roughly one-third of the nation’s population of homeless people, a problem that has dogged Newsom since he took office. Newsom touted that his administration has spent roughly $24 billion aimed at cleaning up streets and housing people but acknowledged the stubbornness of the issue.
Newsom’s decision garnered praise from some local elected officials and business groups, who said they were left with no options to address homeless encampments before the Supreme Court’s ruling.
The latest count showed roughly 180,000 people in the state were living without shelter on any given night.
California has the country’s largest homeless population, at 180,000, and it has poured $24 billion into cleaning up streets and finding housing for people, according to Newsom's office.
Local officials and homelessness advocates in California are divided over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent executive order requiring state agencies to remove homeless encampments on public property.