About this Recovery House
Farmview West House is a men's sober living home on College Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, in Davidson County. Farmview Homes operates it in West Nashville, one of four men's recovery homes the organization runs in the city.
A West Nashville Sober House and Its Corridor
College Avenue sits in the part of West Nashville built around the Charlotte Avenue corridor, a stretch that carries frequent WeGo Public Transit service, a long line of small employers and the retail a resident actually uses week to week. Two schools that matter for someone rebuilding a resume are close: Tennessee State University's main campus and Nashville State Community College both sit in this quadrant of Davidson County. The Nations and Sylvan Park neighborhoods nearby have absorbed a decade of construction hiring, which is steady work for men without a long recent employment history.
What This Men's Recovery Residence Offers
The house serves men only. A single-gender household simplifies everything about shared living in early recovery, from bathrooms to house meetings to how visitors are handled, and one set of expectations covers everyone under the roof. Residents keep their own clinical care, their own prescribers and their own meetings. What the house supplies is a stable address, housemates on the same schedule, and rules that make a week predictable.
Four Nashville Sober Homes Under One Operator
Farmview Homes keeps four men's houses in Davidson County: the West House on College Avenue, the East House on McAlpine Avenue, the Potter House on Potter Lane and the North House on Farmview Drive in Bordeaux. The spread covers three sides of the city, which matters when a job is on the far end of a bus line. A resident whose work or treatment moves across town can ask about a house closer to it instead of starting over with a different operator.
Recovery Housing in Nashville, the Davidson County Seat
Nashville is the state capital and shares a consolidated government with Davidson County, so the courts, the health department, the recovery court and the public hospital that a resident may deal with are all Metro agencies inside the same boundary. WeGo Public Transit connects the county through Music City Central downtown. The city's outpatient treatment capacity is the largest in Middle Tennessee, which is why people leaving residential programs across the region look for recovery housing here first.
Questions Worth Asking About This Sober House
Applications go to Farmview Homes. Ask what the weekly fee includes, what the deposit is and how it comes back, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms are assigned, what the curfew and testing policies are, what happens after a relapse, and whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. The national standards behind recovery residence practice are published by NARR.
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
NEARBY
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TSU
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The Nations
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5 Points Pizza West
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Kroger
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Hattie B's Hot Chicken
TRANSPORTATION
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Bus line is a 2 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 West.
