Thea Golden, a substance abuse peer counselor, founded LA Recovery Connect to aid women in recovery by providing sober living environments. Despite her success in helping former residents transition to independent housing, she struggles to secure funding due to California's 'housing first' policy, which currently prohibits state funds from supporting abstinence-based programs. As support for legislation that would amend this law to include sober living homes grows, Golden's efforts highlight the need for more flexible solutions to homelessness in the state.
When we passed our 'housing first' law we were so intent on reducing barriers to addicts that we inadvertently created new barriers to addicts who wanted to get sober.
Golden has no access to the hundreds of millions of dollars California hands out each year to do exactly that.
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