Newsom Claims Homelessness Progress, Republicans Say He’s Playing ‘Hot Potato'

As California governor Gavin Newsom claims to have cleaned up 5,679 homeless encampments from state property, Republicans wait for the results of a 5,000 hour audit of the state’s homelessness programs, and point to rising homelessness and their observation homeless populations are merely being shuffled as a “political hot potato” instead of getting off the streets. Newsom’s announcement emphasized the counted encampments were from “state right-of-way,” and conducted by CalTrans at state highway sites.