Renewal Recovery Residence - 2101 Coed Sober House

About this Sober House

Renewal Recovery Residence - 2101 is a certified sober house in Billings, Montana, in Yellowstone County. It is one of the recovery homes operated by the Billings nonprofit STEP Inc., and it carries Level 2 certification.

A Billings Sober House in the Renewal Program

The Renewal Recovery Residences are STEP's housing arm, and this house is one of the group inside the 59101 ZIP that covers downtown Billings and the neighborhoods around it. The program exists for the stretch after treatment ends, when a person has stopped using and now has to build the ordinary parts of a life around that: a job, a schedule, a bus route, people to eat dinner with. In 2025 the residences supported more than 12,800 days in recovery.

What Monitored Level 2 Recovery Housing Looks Like

Level 2 is the monitored tier in the national recovery residence standards, and it is the most common model in American sober living for a reason. A house manager or senior resident carries responsibility for the household. Rules on curfew, guests, chores and substance use are documented. Peer support meetings are expected. Drug screening is part of the arrangement. Clinical treatment stays outside the house, with providers the resident chooses. The tier is verified by Recovery Access Montana for each residence separately, so it describes this address and not a chain standard applied from above.

The Nonprofit Behind This Sober Living Home

STEP has operated in Billings for years as Support and Techniques for Empowering People, running family and children's services alongside its housing. A nonprofit operator answers to a board and publishes a mission, and its housing is one program among several instead of a rental business. Across seven homes it serves over 50 residents.

Central Billings and Its Recovery Homes

Billings is the county seat and the largest city in the state, and its center is where the caseload sits. Yellowstone County's courts, detention facility, public defender and county attorney offices, behavioral health providers and the City College campus are all inside a short radius, along with the MET Transit hub that connects them. Recovery housing clusters here because residents can meet obligations on foot or on one bus during the months before a car and a license come back.

What to Ask This Recovery Residence Before Applying

Certification obliges answers to most of the questions that matter, so ask for them. What the weekly fee covers and what the deposit terms are. How bedrooms are assigned and how many people share one. Who is responsible for the house overnight. What the written relapse and discharge policy says. Whether residents on prescribed medication for opioid use disorder are accepted. A certified sober house has to put those in writing before anyone signs.