As frustration intensifies over street homelessness, Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging local governments across California to effectively ban public camping and move faster to close dangerous encampments.

Gavin Newsom has introduced a model ordinance, calling on state municipalities to ban tent encampments on public property.

Gavin Newsom on Monday released a model ordinance ... for sleeping outside "when they have nowhere else to go", that encampment policies must prioritize shelter and services and that policies ...

Gavin Newsom made it clear ... aggressive in enforcing no public encampment ordinances in recent months. Calling encampments “unhealthy and dangerous,” Newsom said local governments should ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is attempting to crack down on homeless encampments in the Golden State after his administration ...

Millbrae, with an estimated homeless population of fewer than two dozen people, has joined a growing list of Bay Area cities ...

We’ve studied encampment sweeps in the Bay Area; our fieldwork shows what homeless people need to move off the streets.

It's among the stricter anti-encampment deterrents proposed by elected officials since the Supreme Court in 2023 made it ...

A gruesome discovery in Westlake is under investigation after a man and a woman were found dead inside an encampment tent on Monday.

Gavin Newsom on Monday provided a path for ... effort to identify and offer shelter prior to clearing an encampment. Newsom cannot force the adoption of his ordinance, but he can use state funding ...

Gavin Newsom on Monday pushed cities to ban homeless ... The owner, who asked to remain unnamed, doesn’t trust LA to enforce Newsom’s encampment ban even if the city goes along with it.