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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: #2,446 - California governor vows to take away funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments
Description: California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday had a message for local governments: clean up homeless encampments now or lose out on state funding next year.
Standing in front of a cleared homeless encampment in Los Angeles, Newsom vowed to start taking state funding away from cities and counties that are not doing enough to move people out of encampments and into shelter. The governor joined the California Department of Transportation, known as Caltrans, on Thursday to clear several encampment sites in the area.
“I want to see results,” Newsom told...