THE SAN FRANCISCO Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday to delay taking a vote on legislation to make new permanent supportive housing facilities drug-free after a local medical association pushed back against the proposal. 

The Board was set to consider Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s drug-free housing legislation. The ordinance would prevent the city from funding new “site-based” permanent supportive housing that prohibits eviction solely due to on-site drug use. Site-based permanent supportive housing is subsidized rental housing where all of the units are for those with a history of homelessness.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.