39th Men's House Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

The 39th Men's House is a men's sober house in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County, operated by Sober Housing Oregon near the corner of Cesar Chavez Boulevard and Burnside.

A Men's Sober House Near Cesar Chavez and Burnside

The operator places this house at Cesar Chavez and Burnside, close to downtown Portland and on main bus lines, a few doors from restaurants and recovery meetings. Cesar Chavez Boulevard is the north to south arterial Portland previously numbered as 39th Avenue, and where it crosses Burnside it separates the northeast and southeast quadrants. That intersection is one of the better transit positions in the city, with frequent service running in both directions and the central city about fifteen minutes away.

Two Kitchens and Two Laundry Rooms in This Recovery Home

The house has two laundry rooms and two kitchens, and has been modernized throughout. Duplicated utilities are the single most reliable predictor of whether a large sober house runs smoothly. One washer for a full house means a sign-up sheet, an argument and somebody wearing dirty work clothes on a Monday. Two removes the whole category of conflict, and the same logic applies to a second kitchen at breakfast. A prospective resident touring any recovery home should count the kitchens and the washers before admiring the paint.

Recovery Meetings Within Walking Distance

The operator notes recovery meetings a few doors away. In inner Portland the meeting density is high enough that most addresses have several within a mile, and the ones on this corridor run through mornings, lunch hours and evenings. That matters for men arriving from residential treatment with a meeting requirement attached to a probation condition or a treatment plan, because a meeting a resident can walk to gets attended and one that requires two buses does not.

Oregon Recovery Housing and the Limits of the Public Record

Oregon does not license recovery residences, and the voluntary accreditation program run by the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon issues credentials to providers instead of to addresses. Only about two dozen Oregon organizations appear on it, so the public record for any individual sober house is thin by design. An applicant closes that gap by asking the operator directly for the fee schedule, the house rules, the relapse and discharge policy and the complaint procedure, all in writing, before move-in.

Applying to This Inner Portland Sober Living Home

The street address is not published and placement is handled by Sober Housing Oregon, which posts current vacancy for each of its fourteen houses. Confirm the monthly rate and what it includes, the deposit and its return terms, whether the room on offer is shared or single, curfew and drug testing practice, and the house policy on medication for opioid use disorder.