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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 encampment cleanup cost the city and the Santa Clara Valley Water District between $400,000 and $500,000. [67] The 75 acre site of the encampment was fenced off and patrolled regularly by police and park rangers to ensure it wouldn't be resettled. Boulders were placed along Story Road to prevent vehicular entry to the area. [68]
Smaller homeless tent cities or tents may exist in Jacksonville. Lubbock, Texas: Avenue A and 13th Street encampment [48] Norfolk, Virginia [49] St. Louis, Missouri had a camp at a park near downtown which was cleared in January 2021, and homeless camps still exist in the Saint Louis area [50] Pensacola, Florida; Tampa, Florida [51]
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.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was ordering more homeless camps to be cleared on state property Thursday.
The NLCHP also published a report, "No Safe Place," which highlights one of Florida's cities with the strongest criminalization policies: Clearwater, Florida. Clearwater has nearly half of its homeless population (42%) without access to emergency housing or affordable housing and, like other cities such as Orlando, heavily punishes sleeping or ...
Mar. 3—Another homeless encampment in Lodi was cleared out Monday, leaving some advocates for the unsheltered asking where the displaced will go. The City of Lodi on Tuesday evening released a ...
Map of the United States with Florida highlighted. The United States Census Bureau defines certain unincorporated communities (lacking elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status) [1] as census-designated places (CDPs) for enumeration in each decennial census.