About this Sober House
Kenzie House is a sober living home in Billings, Montana, the seat of Yellowstone County. It is one of six recovery residences run by A Sober Start in Montana's largest city, and it sits on the west side of town in the 59102 ZIP.
A Sober House on the West Side of Billings
The 59102 ZIP covers most of the Billings West End, the broad residential half of the city stretching from the edge of downtown out toward Rimrock Mall. Grand Avenue and King Avenue West carry the grocery stores, clinics, restaurants and retail jobs that people in early recovery actually need within reach, and MET Transit runs both corridors. For someone rebuilding a routine without a car, that matters more than almost anything else about an address.
What Montana's Registry of Recovery Residences Establishes
Montana changed how it tracks sober living in 2023. Senate Bill 94 requires every recovery residence in the state to register with the Department of Public Health and Human Services, and the resulting registry is public. Kenzie House appears on it under A Sober Start. Registration is a floor, and it is a real one: the household has identified itself to the state by name, operator and location, and a family member in another county can confirm the house exists and who answers for it before anyone signs anything or sends a deposit. Montana's certification programs are separate and voluntary, so the registry is the one list that reaches every recovery residence in the state.
Recovery Housing in Billings and Yellowstone County
Billings is both the county seat and the medical, legal and educational center for a service area that runs to the Dakotas. Billings Clinic and St. Vincent draw patients from across eastern Montana. The Yellowstone County Courthouse, the county detention facility, Montana State University Billings and City College all sit inside the same city limits. A resident of a Billings sober house can hold a job, keep a treatment appointment, satisfy a court obligation and take a class without ever leaving Yellowstone County, and that concentration is why so much of the region's recovery housing is here.
A Sober Start's Sober Homes Across the City
Kenzie House is not a standalone operation. The same operator runs Jacob House, Ruthie House and KT House on the west side, Mark House in central Billings and Heights House up in the Billings Heights. One intake covers all six, so an applicant is being considered for a set of houses spread across three sides of the city, and a move between them keeps the operator, the expectations and the phone number the same.
What to Ask Before Moving Into This Billings Sober House
Applications go through A Sober Start. Ask what the weekly fee covers and what it does not, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms are assigned, what happens after a relapse, whether residents on buprenorphine or methadone are accepted, and how long people typically stay. Get the answers in writing. Any recovery residence that hesitates on those six questions has told you something useful.
