Hansen House - Braddock Drive Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Hansen House – Braddock Drive is a men's sober living home in Somers Point, New Jersey, in Atlantic County. The residence sits on Braddock Drive and is run by the Hansen Foundation, a recovery housing nonprofit that has served the Atlantic County area since 2001.

A Men's Sober House on Braddock Drive

Somers Point sits at the mainland end of the causeway into Ocean City, giving residents access to the shore's seasonal job market along with a year-round base away from the barrier island itself. Braddock Drive runs through a residential section of the city, close enough to Route 9 and the Garden State Parkway for a resident commuting to work or an outpatient appointment elsewhere in the county.

The Hansen Foundation's Recovery Housing Network

Jennifer Hansen, a woman in long-term recovery, founded the Hansen Foundation in 2001, and the organization now operates more than 180 beds across several Atlantic County communities, including Absecon, Northfield and Somers Point. Braddock Drive is one of the foundation's men's addresses, run alongside separate women's houses elsewhere in the county.

Licensed as a Cooperative Sober Living Residence

New Jersey licenses this address as a Class F Cooperative Sober Living Residence under N.J.A.C. 5:27, the state's rule for cooperative sober housing. A New Jersey sober living license means the property has passed inspection against the state's rooming and boarding house standards, which is the credential that actually applies here since the state does not certify recovery residences.

Recovery Housing in Somers Point and Atlantic County

Mays Landing, the Atlantic County seat, sits inland from Somers Point, but the shore towns themselves, Somers Point, Northfield and Absecon among them, carry most of the county's recovery housing because that is where the population and the outpatient providers actually are. A men's house with a long-established operator behind it is a meaningful anchor in a part of the state where sober housing options can otherwise be scattered and short-lived.