About this Recovery House
Mariners Inn Recovery House is a men's sober house at 445 Ledyard Street in Detroit, Michigan, in Wayne County. It holds Level 4 certification from the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences and is the housing arm of Mariners Inn, a Detroit nonprofit that has combined shelter and substance use treatment on the same site for decades.
Thirty-Six Beds of Men's Recovery Housing on Ledyard Street
Ledyard Street sits in the Cass Corridor, in the stretch between downtown Detroit and Midtown where the city's homeless services have long been concentrated. The address matters more here than in most listings. A man leaving the shelter or finishing treatment on this campus does not have to cross the city to find housing, and the walk to a case manager is a walk instead of a bus transfer. The residence is certified for thirty-six beds and serves men.
Congregate Sober Living Attached to Treatment and Shelter
The housing type is congregate, dorm style, which describes both the building and the daily rhythm: shared sleeping and common areas, meals and meetings on a schedule, and staff on site around the clock. Most recovery housing is housing and nothing else, with clinical care bought from providers elsewhere. This works differently, because Mariners Inn runs the shelter, the treatment program and the housing as parts of one nonprofit. For a man arriving from the street, that structure removes the handoffs where people usually disappear: intake, treatment, housing and case management all sit inside one organization with one file on him.
Level 4 Certification for This Detroit Recovery Residence
Michigan has no state license, registry or permit for recovery residences. The only formal credential is voluntary certification through the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, the state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and this house carries it at Level 4. That is the most clinical tier in the national model: a staffed, facility-based residence with credentialed personnel and services delivered on site, with daily structure organized around a program. Certification also binds the house to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint route that leaves the building.
Medication, Felony Records and ADA Access at This Sober House
Three admission facts settle questions that close most doors elsewhere. Prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, so a resident on buprenorphine or methadone keeps his treatment and his address aligned. Applicants with felony records are accepted, which matters for men coming directly out of custody in Wayne County. The building is ADA accessible, which is rare in Detroit recovery housing stock built from older single-family homes.
What This Detroit Recovery Home Costs and How Long a Stay Runs
The program fee is $50 per week, among the lowest published rates for certified housing anywhere in the state, and the operator sets a minimum stay of six months with a maximum of two years. Entry is limited to men who have completed a residential program and who are ready to work. That combination describes what the house is for: a long, cheap, structured runway between finishing treatment and holding a lease, aimed at men who arrived with nothing and need time for wages to accumulate.
Detroit Recovery Homes and the Wayne County Service Network
Detroit is the seat of Wayne County and the center of southeast Michigan's treatment and reentry systems. The Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, the Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network, the DMC and Henry Ford hospital campuses and most of the region's methadone capacity are inside the city, and the DDOT and SMART bus networks meet downtown a few blocks from this address. For a man rebuilding from homelessness, that density is the argument for Detroit recovery housing: everything he has to reach every week is inside a small radius.
All men admitted into the program are allowed to remain for a minimum of six months, up to the two year maximum length of stay. Mariners Inn Recovery House offers the opportunity to work on all aspects of an individual's total recovery. Each individual works on his own specific goals (i.e. his particular way of being self-sufficient) established with the assistance of the staff.
