In September 2021, the governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state had prioritized 100 high-profile camp sites on state lands for clearing. One year later, California has cleaned up an average of 100 homeless encampments per month with a total of 1,262 sites cleared, removing 1,213 tons of trash — enough to fill 22 Olympic swimming pools.
To highlight successful state efforts, Governor Newsom joined Caltrans cleanup efforts at an encampment on I-10 in Los Angeles last Thursday, however, he had already attended cleanups at others in the