{"id":25760,"date":"2025-10-27T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25760\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:21:21","slug":"san-diego-and-fresno-homeless-camps-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25760\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego and Fresno: Homeless camps cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO\u00a0(FOX 5\/KUSI)<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 On Friday, the California Governor\u2019s office announced homeless encampments in San Diego and Fresno were cleared this past week during a statewide, multi-agency collaboration. <\/p>\n

Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s State Action for Facilitation on Encampments (SAFE) Task Force, California Highway Patrol (CHP) and Caltrans have been collaborating to remove homeless encampments on state property across the state. <\/p>\n

San Diego<\/p>\n

In San Diego, SAFE Taskforce members on Tuesday cleared encampments along the 805 Freeway, with one that had up to 30 people at times, the governor\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n

Caltrans workers collected 33 cubic yards of debris and litter, and, in an effort to keep anyone from coming back, will be installing strong fencing and large rocks to deter camping.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPairing resources to assist people transiting from street homelessness to shelters or housing before removing unsafe encampments is how we make meaningful progress,\u201d\u00a0said San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria. \u201cI\u2019m grateful Governor Newsom is supporting our efforts by bringing together state agencies through the SAFE Task Force, which builds on our successful new partnership with Caltrans to clear unsafe encampments along our freeways.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The governor said Caltrans helped people living at the now cleared encampments in San Diego to connect with services and support at a CARE Resource event last week.<\/p>\n

\"Governor\u2019s<\/a>Governor\u2019s SAFE Task Force and local partners clear homeless encampments in San Diego. At this site, the seasonal drainage culvert was cleared of debris ahead of the rainy season (PHOTO: Office of Governor Gavin Newsom)<\/p>\n

The San Diego and Fresno operations this week followed recent actions in San Francisco,\u00a0Los Angeles and\u00a0Anaheim, the governor\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n

Fresno <\/p>\n

In Fresno, Caltrans workers cleared an encampment<\/a> near a residential neighborhood along the Westbound Highway 180 to Northbound Highway 41 Connector, and cleared 6 cubic yards of debris and hazardous waste from the area. The governor\u2019s office said they will be installing barriers next to keep people from coming back. <\/p>\n

Caltrans workers also installed barriers like rock deterrents to keep people from returning to an encampment that keeps being cleared along a pedestrian footbridge over Highway 180. The governor\u2019s office said at times that Fresno encampment had up to 50 people. <\/p>\n

\"Governor\u2019s<\/a>Governor\u2019s SAFE Task Force and local partners clear homeless encampments in Fresno (PHOTO: Office of Governor Gavin Newsom) <\/p>\n

Fresno officials will be holding a community outreach fair next week to help people experiencing homelessness with housing, medical care, drug treatment, counseling and other critical services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving in a dangerous and unsanitary encampment should never be someone\u2019s only option and in California, we have built systems of care to provide people with safer, better choices. This week, our teams worked with our local partners in Fresno and San Diego to address homeless encampments on state property \u2014 and connect people with support and care,\u201d stated Gov. Newsom. <\/p>\n

\"Governor\u2019s<\/a>Governor\u2019s SAFE Task Force and local partners clear homeless encampments in Fresno (PHOTO: Office of Governor Gavin Newsom) <\/p>\n

\u201cThese ongoing efforts happening up and down the state demonstrate the power of partnership and how together we can address homelessness with urgency, compassion, and accountability \u2014 improving safety and quality of life for everyone,\u201d Newsom continued. <\/p>\n

Since 2021, the governor\u2019s office said Caltrans has removed more than 19,000 encampments on state property in California\u2019s most populous cities, and has collected 354,000 cubic yards of litter and debris.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO\u00a0(FOX 5\/KUSI)\u00a0\u2014 On Friday, the California Governor\u2019s office announced homeless encampments in San Diego and Fresno were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,23,100,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-25760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-diego"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}