To accurately get many counties to act quickly and get this job done, Newsom is even going so far as threatening to cut funding to many cities come next year.

This move comes after the U.S. Supreme Court said governments could do exactly this, as they decided it wasn’t illegal. At the time of this ruling, Newsom praised the court’s decision.

Many critics, particularly Republicans, have blasted the liberal state for not dealing with the many tent encampments that have appeared in various cities.

These homeless advocates are worried that clearing up encampments could eventually lead to homeless people being arrested at skyrocketing rates.

For example, Los Angeles officials disagreed with this order, as they stated that it wouldn’t help their homeless crisis. Now, Newsom is threatening to withhold funds to these counties.

“If we don’t see demonstrable results, I’ll start to redirect money,” Newsom said while at the site of a cleared encampment in the San Fernando Valley.

He added, “I’ll be candid with you. This is more broadly an indictment of counties. … Counties need to do more.”

When Newsom’s order was first revealed, the city’s Board of Supervisors, as well as other officials, didn’t take the news well.

“We’re done with excuses. And the last big excuse was ‘well, the courts are saying we can’t do it.’ Well, that’s no longer the case,” Newsom stated. “So we had a simple executive order. Do your job. No more excuses.”

Perhaps most surprisingly, San Francisco has begun to take a more aggressive approach in dealing with its street tents.

Breed also reportedly took staff to give homeless people bus tickets out of San Francisco before they offered them shelter.

Newsom has fought against this assessment of criminalization, saying, “No one wants to see criminalization. That’s a lazy, lazy framework. And that’s the binary people that don’t want to do the job are going to try to frame, and I reject that.”