About this Recovery Home
Francesca House is an LGBTQIA2S+ sober living home in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County. It sits in the Woodstock neighborhood of southeast Portland near Reed College, and is one of six recovery homes run by West Coast Sober Housing.
An LGBTQIA2S+ Recovery Home in Southeast Portland
Dedicated LGBTQIA2S+ recovery housing is rare in Oregon and it answers a specific problem. Queer and trans people enter recovery at higher rates and leave housing at higher rates, often because a household that tolerates them is not the same as a household that is built for them. A house where nobody has to explain a pronoun, a partner or a history at the kitchen table removes a daily tax that residents elsewhere pay without naming it. Everything else about the house follows from that design decision.
Woodstock and the Reed College Area
The neighborhood is one of southeast Portland's most livable: historic houses, a walkable commercial strip along Woodstock Boulevard with coffee shops, a grocery store and vintage retail, and Reed College's campus and canyon at the north edge. Frequent bus service runs Woodstock and Foster, connecting to the MAX Orange Line at Bybee and to downtown in about half an hour. Portland Community College's Southeast campus is a short ride away. The area is quiet, established, and close enough to the Foster and Division corridors for work without being on top of them.
How This Portland Sober House Handles Its Address
The operator locates this house by neighborhood and does not publish a street number, which for LGBTQIA2S+ housing is a safety measure before it is anything else. Placement runs through the company. What can be established beforehand is the neighborhood, the population the house is built for, the transit, and the terms of a stay, all of which are the things actually worth confirming before signing.
Oregon Sober Living Accreditation and Culturally Specific Housing
Oregon does not license recovery residences, and accreditation through the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon is voluntary and granted to provider organizations without any published house-level detail. For housing built around a specific population, the more useful signal is how the house is actually run: who screens applicants, what the conduct rules say, how harassment is handled, and what happens when a resident violates the premise the house exists on. Ask those directly.
Applying to This Multnomah County Recovery Residence
Applications go through West Coast Sober Housing, which also runs men's and women's houses across the city, so a transfer inside the organization is possible if this house is not the right fit. Ask how many people live in the house, whether a house manager lives on site, what the weekly fee covers, whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, how the house handles guests and partners, and what support exists for residents navigating gender-affirming care while in early recovery.
