Lurie Strikes Deal With Caltrans to Sweep Encampments at Highway Off

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/28/lurie-strikes-deal-with-caltrans-to-sweep-encampments-at-highway-off-ramps-and-overpasses/We’ve all seen large homeless encampments beneath freeway overpasses in SoMa and the Mission, and Mayor Lurie just got the green light from Caltrans to start clearing encampments at eight major overpasses and entrance ramps. It seems that for decades, there have always been pretty sizable homeless encampments around the Route 101 overpass at Cesar Chavez Street. Ditto for the South Van Ness and 13th Street overpass for Route 101, not far from Rainbow Grocery. And the City of San Francisco has not cleared those encampments, because the areas under overpasses, and alongside on-ramps and off-ramps, are technically the property of the Ca