"The idea is simple, and supported by decades of research and data: It's almost impossible to address addiction issues if you're living on the streets. Requiring total sobriety as a condition of housing just makes the homeless crisis worse. As Dorsey freely admits, many people facing addiction issues relapse, and require multiple efforts to reach sobriety. That's much easier to handle when you have a roof over your head."
"The legislation will mandate that all city-funded PSH instead be drug-free. In the process, he is attacking both the movement to decriminalize drugs and the well-established harm-reduction movement, and says his bill will Move San Francisco past the tired shibboleths of the drug-decriminalization fringe and intransigent nonprofit heads who insist that "Housing First" persist as the increasingly deadly, one-size-fits-all, 100 percent drug-tolerant experiment it was NEVER intended to be."
Matt Dorsey is introducing local legislation to prohibit city funding for supportive housing that is drug-tolerant, requiring all city-funded Permanent Supportive Housing to be drug-free. The move follows Gov. Gavin Newsom's veto of a bill to allow abstinence-only recovery housing funded by the state; Newsom said voluntary sober housing is already permitted. California's long-standing Housing First policy places people into permanent housing even if substance use continues, based on evidence that stable housing aids recovery. Dorsey and Rafael Mandelman seek to restrict city funds to non-drug-tolerant models while leaving state-funded units under Housing First.
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