About this Recovery House
East Nashville Sober Living - 1613B Rebecca Street is a men's recovery home in Nashville, Tennessee, in Davidson County. A Design for Living Recovery Homes runs it as one of eleven sober living houses across Middle Tennessee, all of them men only and all of them built around a twelve-step framework. The operator holds certification through the Tennessee Alliance of Recovery Residences.
A Purpose-Built East Nashville Sober House
The East Nashville houses in this network are new construction, and the operator describes the layout it built into them: four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a custom kitchen, a large living room, and outdoor space that runs from a front porch to a back deck and a rooftop terrace. Each house is over 2,500 square feet. Those numbers matter more in recovery housing than in an ordinary rental, because square footage per resident is what decides whether a house of men can be in the same building all evening without friction. Three bathrooms across four bedrooms also removes the morning bottleneck that wrecks a work schedule.
Twelve-Step Sober Living in Daily Practice
The house holds in-house twelve-step meetings and book studies, and residents are expected to work with a sponsor. Staff are on site around the clock, drug and alcohol testing is frequent, and there is a weekly sit-down with the house manager built around life skills. Service work is part of the routine, with volunteer slots at food banks and other nonprofits. Someone leaving a treatment center already knows this rhythm, and the point of a house like this is that the rhythm does not stop the day the treatment episode ends.
Operated by a Certified Sober Living Operator
A certified operator has agreed in writing to a code of ethics, to disclosing fees and rules before move-in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to an outside complaint process. Tennessee makes certification a legal expectation for recovery residences, so an operator carrying it is working inside the state's framework instead of alongside it. Certification says nothing about whether this particular house suits a particular man. It does mean there is a body to escalate to if something goes wrong, which a private landlord renting rooms to people in early sobriety cannot offer.
Getting Around East Nashville Without a Car
Most men arrive in early recovery without a vehicle, and the first month is decided by what is reachable without one. Rebecca Street sits in North and East Nashville's grid of residential blocks, with WeGo Public Transit routes on the nearby arterials and a dense schedule of AA and NA meetings inside a short radius. Downtown Nashville, the courts and the state offices are a straight run in along the Cumberland River. Employers in hospitality, warehousing and construction hire across this side of the city, and a resident can hold a job here before he holds a driver's license again.
Sober Homes for Men in Nashville and Dickson
The network reaches from East Nashville into West and North Nashville and out to Dickson in Middle Tennessee. Because one operator runs all of them, a transfer is a conversation with people who already know the resident, and the program does not change from address to address. Justin Coggins, himself in recovery, owns and operates the company, and the houses are held to the same expectations he sets across the network. Anyone comparing men's recovery homes in Nashville should ask which specific address is available, since the houses fill and empty independently.
