Andrew Lamb talks to a sober living home manager about occupancy. Most homes house 6 to 10 people, and only about 20 to 25 percent have cars, so parking rarely becomes a neighborhood problem.
About 6–10 people.
About 20% (speaker also cites a practical planning range of 20–25%).
Another question might be how many people are going to be living in the home? And just in general, you know, how does that affect parking? How does that affect just the neighborhood in general? I'd say on average sober living homes house somewhere between six and 10 people. That is not unlike the average family. My family is a family of seven. I have five daughters and so you probably hear more noise from my house than you would from one of my sober living homes. In addition, I'd say about 20% of the people inside of sober living actually have cars that they drive. So parking in our homes has never been an issue. So much so like I get this question so often that I am now consulted by developers building single family homes and apartment complexes. We want to do affordable housing and they're asking what do we need to plan for parking. And I always say it's about 20 to 25% of the people who actually have cars in this specific demographic.
