Dorsey, who struggles with his own substance use disorder, introduced legislation calling for future city-funded supportive housing to be drug-free, which he says would allow for relapses if they don’t put fellow residents’ sobriety at risk, but some advocates remain skeptical.
A proposal introduced by District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey, with co-sponsors Rafael Mandelman, Stephen Sherrill, Danny Sauter, and Bilal Mahmood, would require new permanent supportive housing sites to evict tenants for drug use — if it poses a danger to others’ sobriety — or risk losing their funding, which some advocates believe could help residents maintain sobriety, as the Chronicle reports. The Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on the legislation later this spring.
Dorsey’s aim is to reduce the amount of accidental overdose deaths that occur in permanent supportive housing in San Francisco by ensuring a more reliably drug-free environment. One-fourth of the city’s overdose deaths last year occurred in supportive housing complexes, according to the Examiner…