Gwendolyn Bryant died of a fentanyl overdose when she was supposed to be celebrating her granddaughter’s 15th birthday. When Bryant didn’t show up to the party that weekend, her daughter, Sheenia Branner, was initially angry. Branner assumed her mother had relapsed again, giving in to the temptation while living among opioid users in one of San Francisco’s residential hotels for formerly homeless people. But days later, that anger turned to sorrow upon learning Bryant had been found dead, alone in her room. She was 58. “I was so proud o ...
A pair of San Francisco lawmakers on Monday outlined their plans to require the city to create more drug-free recovery housing in its push to house the unhoused population, building on a growing movement toward establishing sober housing for people trying to exit homelessness while struggling with addiction. The legislation that San Francisco Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Rafael Mandelman plan to introduce Tuesday acknowledges that some permanent supportive housing projects are legally restricted ...
Capitol Alert Capitol Alert California could end ban on funding homeless sober living. Are... But a new bill, authored by Assemblyman Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, a member of the...
| Estefany Gonzalez/The Standard While sober living communities already exist in San Francisco, they’re aimed at transitioning drug or alcohol users into permanent housing over a period...
San Francisco business owner refuses to be victim after $300k... get sober. "I’m not ready. It would just be a waste of... Having used it while living on the city streets for six years...
recent San Francisco Chronicle feature. The story tells of people living in buildings with collapsing ceilings, toxic mold... Some want to stay sober, but they can’t. Eventually they pick...
A guide to semi-sober or sober-curious life in Philadelphia | Photograph by Andre Rucker ; Lou Perseghin / Photograph by Andre Rucker ; Tina Dixon Spence / Photograph by Andre Rucker
He's eager to tout how amazing the residence has been, and how he finally feels like he's had the time and space to catch his breath after living ten years on San Francisco's street, and...
The annual Western Roundup Living Sober conference supports individual sobriety and maintains unity, connecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual or LGBTQIA+ members within the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous & Al-Anon since 1976
F — and he was equally enthusiastic about the prospect of San Francisco opening a sober living hotel on Kearny Street. “One size does not fit all,” Akbar said Thursday. “And what we...