From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Taverny See, and this is the Daily. In the week since a landmark Supreme Court ruling opened the door for cities and

states to crack down on homeless encampments. California, the state with the largest homeless population, homeless Today, my colleague Sean Hubler, on the race to clean up what has become one of the Democratic

Party's biggest vulnerabilities August 15th.

It's Thursday, August 15th. So Sean, you've been reporting on this really remarkable moment in the long story of California

and homelessness.

Tell me about your reporting.

Sure.

So California is in many ways,

the nation's biggest and most sort of

of of homelessness.

Something like 180,000 people are homeless in California,

and most of them are living without shelter.

Some live in cars, of course, some are couch surfing,

some are in shelters, but a lot of people sleep outside

in California and the most visible aspect of homelessness in recent years has become these encampments.

People who have pitched tents in all sorts of places in parks and on sidewalks and along riverbeds.

Right.

And it's a situation that's increasingly visible here.

So there are a lot of reasons behind it.

Poverty, there's mental illness, abuse, addiction.

And you know, everybody's story is different,

but the bottom line is that it has become a really defining characteristic of cities in California.

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