About this Sober House
Ruthie House is a sober living home in Billings, Montana, the seat of Yellowstone County. A Sober Start operates it on the city's west side, in the 59102 ZIP, alongside three of its other Billings recovery homes.
A West Billings Sober Living Home
The West End is where most of Billings has grown over the past forty years. It is residential, spread out, well served by grocery and retail along Grand Avenue and King Avenue West, and quieter at night than the center of the city. For a recovery residence that combination does real work. Housemates are close to employers and clinics during the day and are not walking past the bars and the corners that used to organize their evenings.
What Shared Recovery Housing Costs and Buys
Billings rents have climbed hard, and a one-bedroom apartment plus a deposit is out of reach for most people leaving treatment with no savings and a thin work history. A room in a sober house is priced for that reality, because the cost of the house is split several ways. The trade is privacy, and the compensation for it is the thing that actually keeps people sober in the first year: other residents who notice when someone stops going to meetings, comes home late or starts avoiding the kitchen.
Montana's Public Register of Recovery Residences
Ruthie House is registered with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services under A Sober Start. Every recovery residence in the state has been required to register since 2023, and the list is open to the public. It records who operates a house and where, which is the minimum a person should be able to establish about a place before moving in, and it is the only statewide list that includes every home.
Yellowstone County Sober Houses and the Wider Region
Yellowstone County holds more of Montana's population than any other, and Billings supplies the treatment providers, hospitals, courts and jobs for a service area far larger than the county line. Sober houses here fill from Laurel, Hardin, Miles City and the Hi-Line as much as from the city itself, because for many people the nearest realistic combination of housing, work and outpatient care is in Billings.
Reaching A Sober Start About This Sober House
Applications go to A Sober Start, which also runs Kenzie House, Jacob House and KT House on the West End, Mark House in central Billings and Heights House in the Heights. Ask about the weekly fee and the deposit, bedroom assignments, curfew, the written relapse and discharge policy, and the house position on medication for opioid use disorder before committing to a move-in date.
