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The National Park Service sweeps an encampment in Washington, DC. In response to the impact of homelessness in their communities, municipal governments in the United States regularly conduct sweeps of tent encampments , forcibly dispersing people from public or private land where they are camping without authorization.
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.
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 ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was ordering more homeless camps to be cleared on state property Thursday.
The new agency was organized into six divisions: Highways, Mass Transportation, Aeronautics, Transportation Planning, Legal, and Administrative Services. [16] Caltrans went through a difficult period of transformation during the 1970s, as its institutional focus shifted from highway construction to highway maintenance. [17]
Tent city of 40,000 in Darfur. A tent city is a temporary housing facility made using tents or other temporary structures.. State governments or military organizations set up tent cities to house evacuees, refugees, or soldiers.
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In 1951, the California State Assembly's Interim Committee on Governmental Reorganization began to study a proposal to consolidate purchasing, printing, records management, traffic management, building maintenance, grounds maintenance, and information services into a single agency, to be called the Department of General Services.