Gov. Kevin Stitt’s operation to clear homeless encampments from state land has moved to Norman, but without an offer of funding to house displaced people.
The move comes after the state agreed to pay Oklahoma City up to $800,000 for housing and support services when Stitt’s Operation Safe cleared homeless encampments there last year.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers on Friday morning cleared a homeless encampment on a vacant state-owned field that abuts the Norman homeless shelter Food and Shelter, where an estimated 30 to 50 people were residing. Two homeless service providers in the area told The Frontier the state did not give them prior notice that the camp would be cleared on Friday…