<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> is set to spend nearly $300 million to clean up homeless encampments near state roads.</p>
<p>Governor Gavin Newsom (D) <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/11/27/california-has-removed-5679-encampments-announces-300-million-in-new-funding-to-move-people-out-of-encampments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> the expensive new effort on Monday with Caltrans, the state&#8217;s Department of Transportation.</p>
<p>&#8220;The public has had it,&#8221; Newsom <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-launches-new-effort-to-clear-homeless-camps-from-state-roads/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> when announcing the new homeless effort. &#8220;They&#8217;re fed up. I&#8217;m fed up. We&#8217;re all fed up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cities, counties, and continuums of care can submit applications for a grant from a $299 million fund, which are reviewed by California&#8217;s Interagency Council on Homelessness.</p>
<p>The program&#8217;s enforcement will focus on moving homeless people found camping along state roadways or &#8220;any piece of land being used for transportation purposes&#8221; into housing, Caltrans spokesperson Alisa Becerra said. This would include areas like bike paths and park and rides as well as highways.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a safety risk for them, for the infrastructure, for our staff, for first responders, and potentially for the traveling public, and that&#8217;s why we remove encampments,&#8221; said Becerra.</p>
<p>Fire hazards are one issue with homeless people living near roadways.</p>
<p>Newsom&#8217;s new homeless effort comes just after a huge <span style="font-weight: 400;">fire started near a homeless encampment under the I-10 freeway in Los Angeles on November 11. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">There was some confusion about whether the fire started in the homeless encampment or at a leased storage space underneath the road that had </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">flammable materials, but regardless, the homeless encampment was caught up in the blaze.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Common fire hazards at homeless encampments are outdoor cooking, homeless people </span><a href="https://www.smobserved.com/story/2023/11/13/news/fire-at-homeless-encampment-under-santa-monica-freeway-closes-the-main-east-west-highway-in-los-angeles-county-for-3-months/7919.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">stealing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> electricity from outside light fixtures, and a lot of highly flammable items like gas-powered generators and plenty of debris strewn around.</span></p>
<p>The governor&#8217;s offices said the state has cleared nearly 5,700 encampments over the last two years and has already provided $415 million to cities and local areas for cleaning encampments and housing homeless people.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think we can all agree that we need to do more to clean up encampments,&#8221; Newsom said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We weren&#8217;t just cleaning up encampments – out of sight, out of mind – and displacing people, removing people, but that we&#8217;re trying to resolve the underlying issues in the first place and actually support people in getting them back on their feet to self-sufficiency,&#8221; the governor said.</p>
<p>However, California state Senator Brian Dahle (R) argued with Newsom&#8217;s claim that the state has cleared thousands of homeless encampments.</p>
<p>&#8220;The governor didn’t clear these homeless encampments; they just moved them down the street,&#8221; Dahle <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-pay-millions-clear-homeless-camps-state-senator-residents-being-gaslighted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;California spends more tax dollars per homeless person than we do on our students. The homeless crisis is a national embarrassment. This governor needs to focus on real results instead of chasing presidential aspirations and gas-lighting Californians.&#8221;</p>

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