About this Recovery Home
The Beech House is a men's sober living home on NE Beech Street in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County. Sober Living PDX operates it in the city's Gateway area on the east side. The house covers 3,078 square feet, and a standard shared room is listed at $750 a month.
A Men's Sober House on NE Beech Street
NE Beech Street runs through a residential grid north of Halsey in outer northeast Portland, a few blocks off the arterials that carry the buses. The household is men only, and it operates the way a good sober house does: shared bedrooms, a shared kitchen, a zero-tolerance policy on alcohol, drugs and non-prescribed medication, and an expectation that every resident is working, in school, in outpatient treatment or volunteering. Nothing about the setup is clinical. The house supplies the address, the housemates and the structure, and treatment comes from providers elsewhere in the city.
Cost and Space in This Portland Recovery Home
A shared room here runs $750 a month across a little over three thousand square feet of house. That is the low end of the operator's range, and for a man leaving detox or residential treatment with a first paycheck still weeks away, the difference between $750 and $850 decides whether the first month is survivable. The room comes furnished, so the move-in cost is the deposit and a bag.
Gateway, East Portland and Multnomah County Recovery Housing
Gateway Transit Center is the busiest transfer point on Portland's east side, where three MAX lines meet a dozen bus routes. From this part of the city, downtown Portland, the Lloyd District, Gresham and the Clackamas Town Center area are all a single ride away. Adventist Health Portland sits nearby on NE Market Street, Portland Community College keeps its Southeast campus a short bus ride south, and the retail, warehouse and food-service jobs along 102nd, 122nd and Sandy Boulevard hire year round. Multnomah County recovery housing is concentrated on this side of the river for exactly these reasons.
Oregon's Voluntary Standard for Recovery Residences
Oregon has no licensing scheme for sober houses. Providers may seek accreditation through the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, which reviews the organization behind the housing and holds it to a written code of ethics, disclosed fees and rules, a relapse and discharge policy, and an external complaint process. It is voluntary, and the board publishes no list of individual addresses. Someone comparing Portland sober houses should ask each operator what it holds and treat a clear, written house agreement as the real test.
House Expectations Across Sober Living PDX Recovery Homes
The operator applies a consistent set of expectations at its addresses: weekly house meetings, no overnight guests, active participation in recovery through meetings, outpatient treatment, employment, school or volunteering, and drug testing that any resident can request of any other. Curfew flexes around work schedules, which is a meaningful accommodation for anyone holding a night shift or a swing shift in a warehouse or a kitchen.
What to Confirm Before Applying to This Portland Sober House
Ask how many men share a room at the listed rate, what the deposit is and how it is returned, whether a house manager lives in the building, how long the average stay runs, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. That last question decides more placements than any other, since someone on a prescribed medication who loses a bed over it often loses the prescription along with the address.
More About Sober Living PDX and Cascade Sober Living, Sober Living PDX -The Beech House NE Portland, OR
Home and Healthy
Sober Living PDX & Cascade Sober Living provide higher quality recovery assistance housing to individuals who are looking for safe and well-managed homes. Our residency program is geared toward providing a living environment that offers peer-to-peer support systems so people can have a home that promotes their long-term recovery efforts.
Our homes are located in ideal and welcoming neighborhoods scattered throughout Oregon as we are also currently expanding into the Washington area. Every residence is overseen by a live-in House Manager that communicates directly to our Director of Housing to ensure that recovery assistance programs and rules are abided by during our resident's stay.
Here at Sober Living PDX & Cascade Sober Living, our residents value their recovery assistance experience by having a comfortable home that will allow them to have a successful transition into living independently in the community.
Our Sober Living Mission Statement
We provide quality, comfortable housing for those seeking a clean & sober, healthy, program-centric environment that promotes recovery from alcohol, drug use and associated problems.
