Boston Street Women's Sober House

About this Sober House

585 Boston Street is a women's sober living home in Lynn, Massachusetts, in Essex County. Chelsea's House operates the property and it carries Level II certification through the Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing.

A Women's Sober House on Boston Street

Boston Street is one of three women's houses in the Chelsea's House network, alongside Franklin Street in Lynn and Orient Avenue in East Boston. Residents share bedrooms across the house, which keeps the weekly fee manageable and puts everyone in regular contact with each other. Lynn's downtown and its MBTA commuter rail stop sit within an easy trip of the property.

House Rules Shared Across the Network

Every Chelsea's House address, including Boston Street, runs on the same schedule: a mandatory weekly house meeting, three outside recovery meetings, drug testing twice a week on a random basis, and a nightly curfew with no overnight guests. Keeping the house single-gender means the rules, the meetings and the common space are built around one population.

Certification Through MASH

The Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing certifies this house at Level II, which requires a published code of ethics, disclosed fees and rules before move-in, and review through a complaint process independent of the house.

Three Women's Houses in a Twelve-House Network

Chelsea's House, named for longtime recovery advocate Robert "Chelsea Bob" Hinckley, runs twelve certified houses across Lynn, East Boston, Chelsea and Malden, but only three take women. A resident at Boston Street who needs a different city has the operator's other two women's houses to ask about.

Essex County Recovery Housing

Lynn carries more of the Chelsea's House portfolio, six houses, than any other city in the network, and Boston Street is one of two women's addresses inside city limits. That concentration gives Essex County recovery housing searchers more certified beds under one operator than most Massachusetts cities offer.