What Is A Sober Living Home?

Question number one, what the heck is a sober living home? From my perspective, I tend to explain that a sober living home is really drug and alcohol free transitional housing. So it doesn't always mean that somebody's coming out of a history of substance abuse, it doesn't mean that they're coming out of a treatment program, but it does mean that they are choosing to abstain from drugs and alcohol while they are living inside of the home. So this is an active choice. I think when answering the question of what is a sober living home, you have to also talk about what a sober living home isn't. And it's not a halfway house, it's not something that's court ordered for people to be in. It is a choice that people actively make to abstain from drugs and alcohol. And so whether or not they had a history of substance abuse, no one inside of the home can use drugs or alcohol while living there. They are subject to rules, subject to drug testing. It's a structured environment, it's monitored. And so this is going to give people the accountability they need if it is something that they're struggling with or otherwise it'll be just affordable housing with structure and rules and something that's going to cost a lot less than, let's say, an apartment. And for most people it is a place to land and rebuild and like work and save and all that stuff without the stress of potentially like maybe they're coming from living in their car. We've had that happen before. Senior citizens, lots of elderly people unfortunately have been living in their cars because they can't afford, on a fixed income, a traditional apartment, or they were living with family, family moved away or passed away and now they're on their own. And this gives them a place to land. And then we come around them and can help them find apartments, apply for different income based housing options that they maybe didn't know about.