Around 100 members of San Francisco’s addiction recovery community rallied on the steps of City Hall on Thursday to advocate for legislation proposing that new permanent supportive housing facilities be drug-free.

“It is a right to have clean living environments from drugs and alcohol abuse,” said District Attorney Brooke Jenkins in a speech. “I am tired, as we all are, of seeing San Franciscans die each and every day on our streets and in permanent supportive housing.”

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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.