On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom released a plan to remove homeless individuals from the street with a new directive for cities, towns and counties to ban tent camping on sidewalks and in parks.

Gov. Gavin Newsom asked cities Monday across the state to ban homeless encampments, releasing a template policy he hopes they'd adopt but stopping short of conditioning funding on their doing so. Why it matters: Newsom is continuing to embrace a tougher approach on homelessness,