The country is short of good recovery housing. We help people build it properly.

Every week, discharge planners look for a certified bed and cannot find one. At the same time, people who want to open a sober living home, many of them in recovery themselves, stall out on the same wall of questions: who certifies homes here, what paperwork does the review expect, what does zoning allow, what should residents pay. The information exists, but it is scattered across statutes, affiliate websites, and hard-won operator experience.

SoberHomePath pulls that path into one place. The free side of the site maps every state's NARR affiliate, calculates honest startup budgets, and drafts first-pass house rules. The paid kit goes deeper: the full startup sequence, the operations manual framework a certification review reads, the intake paperwork set, and the referral playbook.

What we believe

• Certification is the field's immune system. The NARR standard and its state affiliates exist because residents deserve safe houses and referral sources need a way to find them. We build operators for that system, not around it.
• Honesty is the product. No invented state facts, no outcome promises, no fabricated social proof. Where something varies, we hand you the question and the authority that decides it.
• Residents are the point. A sober living home houses people at a vulnerable point in their lives. Every framework in our kit, from naloxone protocols to warm-handoff exit practices, is written resident-first.

What we are not

We are an independent information publisher. We are not NARR, not a state affiliate, not a law firm, not a treatment provider, and not a government agency, and we hold no authority over any certification decision. We also do not broker anything: no referral fees, no operator directories for sale, no connections to treatment providers. Our editorial standards spell out how we work.

Start where you are

If you are exploring, the Certification Path Finder will show you your state's landscape in a minute. If you are building, the Sober Living Startup and Certification Kit is the whole path in one document. And if you spot anything we got wrong, tell us at team@soberhomepath.com; corrections make the site better for the next operator.