About this Recovery House
Structured Living is a coed sober living home at 1289 Waterways Drive in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the seat of Washtenaw County. It houses men and women in recovery on the city's south side.
A Coed Sober Living Home on Waterways Drive
Waterways Drive sits in the southeast quadrant of Ann Arbor, in the part of the city closest to the airport road and the I-94 interchange and furthest from campus. For a resident, that is the affordable side of an expensive city, and it puts the industrial and service employers along State Street and Ellsworth Road within reach. The house has a published street address, which is uncommon in Michigan recovery housing and lets a family see the place before committing to it.
How a Coed Sober House Differs From Single-Gender Housing
A coed recovery residence houses men and women under one roof and one set of rules. The trade is real in both directions. Coed housing widens the pool of available beds in a city where beds are scarce, and it lets a household look more like the world a resident is returning to. It also asks more of the house rules, because relationships between residents are the most common reason a coed house loses two people in one week instead of one. Anyone touring a coed sober house should ask what the policy on relationships is, how bedrooms and bathrooms are separated, and how the house handles a conflict between residents.
Voluntary Certification for Michigan Recovery Residences
Michigan has no license, registry or inspection requirement for recovery housing. Certification through the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, is voluntary and is the only formal standard in the state. A certified house has committed in writing to a code of ethics, to disclosing fees and rules before move-in, to a documented relapse and discharge policy, and to complaint review from outside the house. Homes that have not applied are not deficient by that fact alone, and the same four commitments are the right things to request from any operator.
Ann Arbor Recovery Housing and Washtenaw County
Ann Arbor is the county seat and the center of the county's medical and legal systems. The University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine, the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center, the Washtenaw County Trial Court, community mental health services and most of the county's outpatient treatment providers are all inside the city, and TheRide runs buses across it and out to Ypsilanti. Sober living in Ann Arbor competes with student rents, which keeps the supply tight and makes an available bed at a fixed monthly rate more valuable here than in most of southeast Michigan.
What to Ask This Ann Arbor Sober House Before Applying
Applications go to the operator. Ask what the monthly rate is and what it covers, whether utilities and internet are included, whether a house manager lives in the building, how many residents share a bedroom and a bathroom, what the curfew and testing schedule are, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how long a resident may stay. In a city this expensive, also ask how much notice a resident gets before a rate change.
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