Governor Gavin Newsom is threatening to withhold state funding from counties that don’t take steps to clear homeless encampments. Newsom made the announcement on Thursday, after helping clean up an encampment in the Los Angeles area. Newsom said he’ll start to redirect money away from counties that don’t produce “demonstrable results” toward reducing homelessness. Last month, Newsom issued an executive order requiring his administration to remove homeless encampments from state property, and called on cities and counties to get tougher in enforcing camping rules. Some counties have been resisting Newsom’s directives ever since.
