About this Recovery House
Kelsey's House Foundation - Royal Oak is a men's sober living home in Royal Oak, Michigan, in Oakland County, whose county seat is Pontiac. It holds Level 2 certification from the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, and the fee is $185 per week with utilities, laundry and Wi-Fi included.
A Men's Sober House in Southern Oakland County
This is a single family home for men, run by a foundation whose houses sit across the southern end of Oakland County. The gender restriction settles the practical questions in advance: bathrooms, house meetings and common space are single-gender, and one set of rules covers the household. Royal Oak itself is dense, walkable in its core, and full of the restaurant, retail and trade work that a man in early recovery can actually get hired into.
What $185 a Week Covers in This Recovery Residence
The weekly fee is $185 and includes utilities, laundry and Wi-Fi. A $150 intake fee is due at move-in and is not refundable. Published inclusions are more useful than they look: a man budgeting a first paycheck against a weekly rate needs to know whether a heating bill or a laundromat is going to appear in February, and internet access is what makes a job application, a telehealth appointment or a remote meeting possible from the house.
What Level 2 Certification Describes in This Sober Living Home
Level 2 is monitored housing. A house manager or senior resident holds authority inside the home, the household runs on written rules, and clinical care comes from providers in the community. It is the tier for someone who has finished treatment and needs structure and accountability more than supervision. Certification puts that model on record and binds the operator to a code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a relapse and discharge policy, and outside complaint review.
Community and Employment Around This Royal Oak Sober House
The operator's own case for the location is proximity to a large recovery community and to available work, and both are real in southern Oakland County. The area supports a dense meeting schedule most nights of the week. Corewell Health's Royal Oak hospital campus is one of the largest employers in the region, downtown Royal Oak carries a deep bench of service work, and the city has a commuter rail stop and SMART bus service on the Woodward corridor for anyone without a car. The operator also describes the house itself as calm and welcoming, aiming at friendships that outlast the tenancy.
Medication-Assisted Recovery in This Men's Recovery Home
Medication-assisted treatment is accepted, and men with felony records are accepted. Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services supports medication for opioid use disorder statewide, and a certified house that accommodates a prescription keeps a man's treatment and his address from working against each other.
Recovery Housing in Royal Oak and Oakland County
Oakland County is the wealthiest and second most populous county in Michigan, and its recovery housing stock is concentrated in the older inner-ring cities at its southern edge, of which Royal Oak is the largest. The county seat and the circuit court are in Pontiac, reachable up the Woodward corridor, and Detroit is a short run south. A man placed here is inside the region's job market and its meeting network at the same time, which is the argument for this address over a cheaper one further out.
