The housing and addiction crises in San Francisco continue to be salient public health issues and some lawmakers are exploring a different avenue toward supporting people in recovery: drug-free options within the city’s permanent supportive housing. 

On Monday, two San Francisco supervisors held a press conference outside of City Hall to announce legislation prioritizing drug-free recovery housing in the city. Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Rafael Mandelman’s legislative effort, dubbed Recovery Housing First, aims to have at least 25 percent of San Francisco’s supportive housing portfolio be drug-free recovery housing. 

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Aditi Praveen Kariyanahalli is a digital media intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. She is a rising senior at Fordham University, double majoring in journalism and political science. She serves as the arts & culture editor at The Fordham Observer, her university’s student newspaper. Aditi enjoys writing about visual art, local politics and housing justice. In her free time, she loves to read and swim.