About this Recovery House
R3 House - Prince Street is a sober house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. R3 House – Prince Street is a sober living home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the base of the R3 House organization. It stands on South Prince Street in downtown Lancaster, the seat of Lancaster County, a few blocks from Penn Square at the center of the city.
R3's Prince Street Sober Living Location in Downtown Lancaster
South Prince Street is one of the main north-south streets of downtown Lancaster, inside walking distance of Central Market, the county courthouse and the convention center. The Prince Street location is where R3 House runs its operations and where residents find the organization's shared recreation space, with a pool table, ping pong and a common room built for people to spend evenings in. That sounds incidental until a resident's first sober weekend arrives with nothing scheduled in it.
Employment Expectations in This Recovery Home
R3 House requires residents to obtain gainful employment, and it may require attendance at outpatient treatment with a local provider. Those two conditions describe the model. The house supplies the address and the accountability; the clinical work and the paycheck come from outside it. A downtown Lancaster location is well suited to both, because the city's employers, its outpatient providers and its bus network all converge within a few blocks.
Case Management and Life Skills in This Sober Living Home
The organization staffs a case manager alongside its operations and property roles, and it mentors residents in resume building, interview skills, budgeting and conflict mediation. Its affiliated Pennsylvania nonprofit, R3 Recovery Services, adds career support, education assistance, financial guidance and help navigating legal problems. Most people arriving from treatment or incarceration have all four of those problems at once, and a house that treats them as part of the program shortens the time a resident spends stuck.
A Licensed Sober Living Operator in Lancaster County
R3 House states that it is licensed by the Commonwealth through the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, which licenses recovery houses under Act 59 of 2017. Licensure is voluntary in Pennsylvania, and this is a licensed operator. Certification through the Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences is a separate credential covering individual residences. Anyone comparing houses should ask which credential attaches to the specific address they are applying to, and ask to see the fee schedule and discharge policy in writing.
Recovery Housing in Downtown Lancaster
Lancaster is the county seat and the service center for a county of more than half a million people. Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, the county courthouse, Franklin and Marshall College, the Amtrak Keystone Line station and Red Rose Transit's bus network all sit inside the city. A resident can meet a court obligation, keep a medical appointment and work a shift on foot or on a single bus. For people leaving treatment in the smaller Lancaster County boroughs, the city is usually the nearest address with all three inside reach.
Getting Into This Lancaster Sober Living Home
Applications run through R3 House, which operates several residences in the city and keeps men's and women's houses separate. Ask what the weekly cost covers, what the employment requirement looks like in the first thirty days, whether outpatient treatment is expected, and how a resident moves between houses if the fit is wrong. An operator with a case manager on staff should have a straight answer to each.
Our Mission
Our goal at R3 House is to provide a high standard of living for people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. We believe that our sober living residents deserve to live in a quality home, in an accountable atmosphere with the opportunities to flourish spiritually, emotionally, and physically. We seek to foster a process where individuals can:
RECOVER from addiction,
RESTORE their self-esteem and confidence while discovering their God-given abilities,
REBUILD their lives.
