Harris County commissioners adopted the framework surrounding a countywide policy that includes directing county staff to update the 311 call system to begin tracking homeless complaints submitted by the public.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging California’s local governments to begin clearing homeless encampments, escalating the state’s efforts to ban makeshift camps that line streets up and down the state.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday again urged California cities and counties to restrict homeless encampments, a move that came as he released more than $3 billion in Proposition 1 funding for housing and treatment for the most seriously ill and unhoused in the state.