Newsom Orders Crackdown on California Homeless Encampments (2)

California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an order directing state agencies to remove homeless encampments, signaling a crackdown in the US state with the largest population of unhoused residents.

“There are simply no more excuses,” he said in a statement Thursday. “It’s time for everyone to do their part.”

Newsom is taking a harder line weeks after a US Supreme Court decision overturning an appeals court’s 2019 ruling that said people had a right to sleep on public property if no other shelter was available. While the governor’s order only applies directly to California agencies clearing encampments on state property such ...