The impact of his executive order was unclear given that most encampments are not on state land. He encouraged cities and counties to follow suit.
Urban Alchemy's Rodney Wrice patrols a homeless tent village a block away from San Francisco City Hall in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 27, 2022.
California is home to more than 180,000 unhoused people — nearly a third of the country’s total — and almost 70 percent of them live without shelter outside, a larger share than any other state, according to federal statistics. On Thursday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass balked at Newsom’s order, noting that an annual count of the city’s unhoused showed their ranks had decreased 10 percent.“For the first time in years, unsheltered homelessness has decreased in Los Angeles because of a comprehensive approach that leads with housing and services, not criminalization,” Bass said in a statement condemning the clearing of encampments.
But some California mayors, like London Breed of San Francisco, have taken a more aggressive stance, promising to begin clearing encampments in coming weeks.
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