About this Recovery House
Farmview Potter House is a men's recovery home on Potter Lane in Nashville, Tennessee, in Davidson County. Farmview Homes operates it in East Nashville alongside three other men's sober living homes in the city.
A Men's Sober House on Potter Lane
Potter Lane sits in East Nashville, the part of Davidson County across the Cumberland River from downtown. The neighborhood carries an unusually dense recovery community: meetings run morning and night within a short radius, and the Gallatin Avenue and Main Street corridors put groceries, pharmacies, restaurant work and WeGo Public Transit service within reach of a resident with no car. Downtown Nashville and Music City Central are a short bus ride across the river, which opens the rest of the county for work.
A Household Built for Men in Early Recovery
Potter House serves men. The value of a single-gender recovery residence is practical: house rules, sleeping arrangements, meetings and visitor policy are all written for one population, and a resident is never the only man or the only woman in the house. Peer housing does its work through the other residents, who notice a missed shift or a skipped meeting long before a counselor would, and a stable household is what makes that possible.
Four Farmview Recovery Homes Across Nashville
The operator runs the Potter House in East Nashville, the East House on McAlpine Avenue in Inglewood, the North House on Farmview Drive in Bordeaux and the West House on College Avenue in West Nashville. Having four addresses in one county means a resident can change households without changing cities, employers or outpatient providers, and the operator can move somebody who is doing well but living too far from a new job.
Recovery Housing in Nashville and Davidson County
Nashville is the state capital and runs a consolidated government with Davidson County. Metro General Sessions Court, the county recovery court, Nashville General Hospital, the Metro health department and the largest outpatient treatment network in Middle Tennessee are all inside the same boundary, and Shelby Park and the Shelby Bottoms greenway give East Nashville residents somewhere free to spend a Saturday. For a man arriving from a residential program in a smaller county, this is usually the nearest address with work, transit and treatment in the same place.
What to Confirm Before Moving In
Applications go through Farmview Homes. Confirm the weekly fee and what it covers, the deposit and its return, whether a house manager lives on site, curfew, drug testing, the discharge policy and whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. Tennessee's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services publishes statewide recovery residence information.
TRANSPORTATION
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Bus line is a 5 minute walk from the house.
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We recommend participants without vehicles use a bicycle at this location. Most public amenities can be easily accessed within 10-15 minutes via bicycle from Farmview Potter.
NEARBY
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Shelby Bottoms Greenway
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Shelby Bottoms Golf Course
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Two Ten Jack
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Wild Cow (Vegetarian)
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Rosepepper Mexican
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Portland Brew East
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Jeni's Ice Cream
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Kroger
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Aldi
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Climb Nashville East
SOBER HOUSE AMENITIES
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On-site house manager
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Laundry Facility
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Two refrigerators
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Dining Area
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Bi-monthly cleaning service
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Weekly drug and alcohol testing
