Newsom on Monday called on cities across California—which accounts for a third of the country’s entire homeless population—to clear out and ban homeless encampments.

Gov. Gavin Newsom asked cities Monday across California to ban homeless encampments, releasing a template policy he hopes they'd adopt but stopping short of conditioning funding on their doing so.

Local leaders and advocates look to figure out how to effectively help people get off the streets amid an urgent push from Gov. Gavin Newsom to end encampments.