About this Recovery House
DB House Sober Living – Halstead Avenue is a men's sober living home in Wallington, New Jersey, in Bergen County. It is a New Jersey Department of Community Affairs licensed Cooperative Sober Living Residence, one of eleven houses DB House Sober Living runs across northern New Jersey, with ten beds across six bedrooms and three bathrooms.
A Men's Sober House on Halstead Avenue
The house holds ten men in a mix of private and semi-private bedrooms, furnished and stocked with bed linens and cleaning supplies on move-in. Central heat and air, high-speed internet, cable, a washer and dryer, a full kitchen and an outdoor grill round out the shared space, and the house runs on a set schedule, open from 6 a.m. to midnight daily.
Twenty-Four-Hour Structure and House Management
DB House Sober Living keeps a live-in house manager at Halstead Avenue and describes the model as twenty-four-hour support and accountability built on peer relationships. Residents gain access to a network the operator puts at more than seventy men in recovery across its properties, which gives someone at this house a much larger peer group than the six bedrooms on site would suggest.
What a New Jersey Cooperative Sober Living Residence License Establishes
New Jersey licenses recovery residences; no agency certifies them. Halstead Avenue holds its license from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs as a Class F Cooperative Sober Living Residence under N.J.A.C. 5:27, and that license is what confirms the state has reviewed the property and the arrangement it houses.
Cost and Move-In at This Wallington Sober House
DB House Sober Living publishes a move-in cost of $750, covering two weeks of rent plus an entry fee, with a weekly rate of $250 afterward. Publishing the figure up front is itself a disclosure a resident can hold the operator to.
Recovery Housing in Wallington and Bergen County
Wallington is a small, densely built borough in Bergen County, close to Elmwood Park, Garfield and the wider North Jersey job market along Route 46 and the Garden State Parkway. That density means work, meetings and outpatient providers are all a short drive away, and it is part of why DB House Sober Living has clustered several of its eleven houses in this stretch of Bergen and Passaic counties.
Part of an Eleven-House Network
Halstead Avenue is one of eleven houses DB House Sober Living operates across Elmwood Park, Fair Lawn, Paterson, Saddle Brook, Wallington and New Brunswick. A resident who later needs a different town or a different set of housemates is dealing with an operator that already runs the alternative.
