The city of Grants Pass is restarting its effort to award a $1.2 million grant to an organization that can shelter 150 homeless people, a program intended to ease pressure on city resources.

In the most-comprehensive look yet at whether people are using Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court, we found that far fewer Californians are enrolled in the mental health program than he projected.

The task force, made up of six different state agencies, is the latest effort by the Newsom administration to remove homeless encampments from California’s streets.

When it comes to clearing homeless encampments, California cities are governed by a patchwork of very different policies.

Grants Pass police cleared homeless encampments Tuesday morning at Baker and Kesterson Parks, directing residents to leave public property.

The tentative agreement requires the city to ensure space for campers and fund some homeless services.

For several years, there’s been a large homeless encampment on a hill behind the Siskiyou Behavioral Health Services building in Yreka. Locals have debated what to do about it for just as long. That ended this week as authorities cleared the camp.

Siskiyou County is adding options, slowly, for homeless adults.

President Donald Trump wants cities to force treatment on people with severe mental illness or addiction who are living outside. An executive order signed late last week aims to remove “vagrant” individuals from streets across the country and place them in long-term institutional settings to “restore public order.”

Trump’s call to enforce bans on encampments echoes Newsom’s policy. But the president wants to upend two other core tenants of California’s homelessness response.

State agency in charge of food benefit payments still currently assessing any potential changes.

This year’s tally of homeless people showed declining numbers in Southwestern Oregon and far Northern California, but service providers aren’t convinced the problem is actually getting better.