As California governor Gavin Newsom claims to have cleaned up 5,679 homeless encampments from state property, Republicans wait for the results of a 5,000 hour audit of the state’s homelessness programs, and point to rising homelessness and their observation homeless populations are merely being shuffled as a “political hot potato” instead of getting off the streets. Newsom’s announcement emphasized the counted encampments were from “state right-of-way,” and conducted by CalTrans at state highway sites.