(25 Jul 2024)
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Los Angeles – 25 July 2024
1. Tracking shot of homeless encampments in downtown Los Angeles
2. Wide of shot of homeless encampments in downtown Los Angeles
3. Wide of trash and homeless encampments in downtown Los Angeles
4. Wide of people sitting around shade in downtown Los Angeles
5. Various of homeless encampments in downtown Los Angeles
6. Wide of person laying on top of tent in downtown Los Angeles
STORYLINE:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Thursday to direct state agencies on how to remove homeless encampments, a month after a Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public spaces.
Newsom’s order is aimed at the thousands of tents and makeshift shelters across the state that line freeways, clutter shopping center parking lots and fill city parks. The order makes clear that the decision to remove the encampments remains in local hands.
The order comes after a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this summer allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public spaces. The case was the most significant on the issue to come before the high court in decades and comes as cities across the country have wrestled with the politically complicated issue of how to deal with a rising number of people without a permanent place to live and public frustration over related health and safety issues.
Newsom’s administration wrote in support of cities’ argument that previous rulings, including one that barred San Francisco from clearing encampments until more shelter beds were available, have prevented the state from solving a critical problem.
While Newsom cannot order local authorities to act, his administration can apply pressure by withholding money for counties and cities.
California is home to roughly one-third of the nation’s population of homeless people, a problem that has dogged Newsom since he took office.
AP video by Jae Hong
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