Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, stood with local leaders at San Francisco’s City Hall on Monday to promote new legislation that would allow 25% of state funds for recovery housing to go to drug-free housing options.
Assembly Bill 255 is Haney’s second attempt at changing recovery housing law, and it is a response to California’s Housing First policy adopted in 2016. That law required all state-funded homelessness programs to get people into homes as quickly as possible, without requiring sobriety or other barriers.
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