Oakland will be making a more aggressive push to clear homeless encampments in the city following an executive order issued by Mayor Sheng Thao.

Mayor Sheng Thao announced Monday that she’s ordering the city to take a more aggressive approach to closing down homeless camps.Thao issued an executive order requiring Oakland to “develop and implement a plan to close all encampments” that present an emergency,

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao announced that Monday she has given an executive order to city departments to fully remove people living in homeless encampments, enforcing the Encampment Management Policy. “Being unhoused is not a crime in Oakland,