About this Recovery Home
Franklin House is a men's sober living home in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County. It stands on Southeast Mill Street in the Montavilla and Hazelwood area of southeast Portland, and it is one of six recovery homes operated by West Coast Sober Housing.
A Men's Sober House on Southeast Mill Street
The household is men only, which settles the shared bathrooms, the tone of the common space and the house rules in one decision. Southeast Mill Street runs through a quiet residential grid a few blocks off Southeast Stark and Southeast Washington, in a part of the city built for families and now doing double duty as some of Portland's most workable recovery housing. Sidewalks, corner grocery stores and bus stops are all within a couple of blocks, and the walk to the Montavilla commercial strip on Stark takes minutes.
Getting Around From This Southeast Portland Recovery Home
Transit is the reason east Portland recovery housing works. Frequent bus service runs Stark, Washington and 82nd Avenue within walking distance, the MAX Blue and Red lines are a short ride north at Gateway, and the Southeast campus of Portland Community College is close enough to attend without a car. Employers in the Gateway district, along 82nd, and in the Columbia corridor hire for the kind of entry-level work a man in a transitional stay needs, and the commute to any of them is measured in one bus ride.
What a Multi-House Sober Living Operator Offers
West Coast Sober Housing runs six homes across Portland, covering men's, women's and LGBTQIA2S+ housing. The advantage shows up when circumstances change. A resident who needs a different neighborhood, a different set of housemates or a shorter commute can raise it with an operator who already knows him, and a transfer inside the same organization does not mean re-applying, re-explaining and losing a deposit.
Oregon Sober Living Accreditation and What to Verify
Oregon licenses no recovery residences. Accreditation through the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon is voluntary and is held by provider organizations, never by individual houses, so nothing public will confirm one address over another. What a prospective resident can insist on is documentation: the fee schedule in writing, the house rules in writing, the relapse and discharge policy in writing, and a clear answer about where a complaint goes if the house manager is the problem.
Questions Worth Asking About This Portland Men's Recovery House
Ask how many men live in the house and whether any bedrooms are private, whether a house manager lives on site, what the weekly charge covers, how drug and alcohol testing is handled, whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and what the expectation is about work, school or volunteering in the first month. Those six answers describe daily life in a sober house more accurately than any description of the building.
