Newsom issues executive order for removal of homeless encampments in California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an enforcement bid Thursday for the removal of homeless encampments successful his state.

Newsom's bid would nonstop authorities agencies connected however to region the thousands of tents and makeshift shelters crossed the authorities that enactment freeways, clutter buying halfway parking tons and capable metropolis parks. The bid makes wide that the determination to region the encampments remains successful the hands of section authorities.

The guidance comes aft a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this summertime allowing cities to enforce bans connected sleeping outside successful nationalist spaces. The lawsuit was the astir important connected the contented to travel earlier the precocious tribunal successful decades and comes arsenic cities crossed the state person wrestled with the politically analyzable contented of however to woody with a rising fig of radical without a imperishable spot to unrecorded and nationalist vexation implicit related wellness and information issues.

"We indispensable enactment with urgency to code unsafe encampments," Newsom said successful a statement.

While Newsom cannot bid section authorities to act, his medication tin use unit by withholding wealth for counties and cities.

Newsom has made homelessness a signature contented arsenic California governor. He pushed and campaigned for a ballot measurement earlier this twelvemonth to let the authorities to get astir $6.4 cardinal to physique 4,350 lodging units.

The bid comes arsenic Republicans person stepped up their criticisms of California and its homelessness situation arsenic Vice President Kamala Harris - a erstwhile California territory attorney, lawyer wide and legislator - launches her statesmanlike campaign. Harris entered the contention implicit the play aft President Joe Biden's announced that helium would not question reelection.