A new push to bring recovery homes into state's 'housing first' homeless model in California

California Reconsiders Strict Housing-First Approach to Homelessness

A bill would allow local governments to devote up to a quarter of their homeless funds to residential programs that practice sobriety.

A new push to bring recovery homes into state's 'housing first' homeless model in California

LOS ANGELES — After a long journey of personal recovery and years volunteering as a substance abuse peer counselor, Thea Golden launched her own recovery home.

A new push to bring recovery homes into state's 'housing first' homeless model

The California Legislature is considering a bill that would end a nearly decade-old law denying state funding to abstinence-based housing. The law was meant to eliminate housing barriers to drug and alcohol users but, critics say, created barriers to those seeking sobriety.

A push to bring rehab into state’s ‘housing first’ homeless model

After a long journey of personal recovery and years volunteering as a substance abuse peer counselor, Thea Golden launched her own recovery home. She and her husband, Tyler, bought a house in the Jefferson Park neighborhood west of USC, turned an illegally converted garage into a permitted ADU, formed a nonprofit and put out word through their unofficial social services network that they had two beds for women seeking a sober environment. Her ti…