About this Recovery House
North Nashville Sober Living - Dunbar Drive is a men's sober living home in Nashville, Tennessee, in Davidson County. It is the A Design for Living Recovery Homes house in North Nashville, in the 37207 ZIP code, and the operator runs eleven sober living homes in total across Middle Tennessee.
A Men's Sober House in North Nashville
North Nashville is the part of the city with the deepest institutional history and the shortest supply of certified recovery housing, so a men's house here fills a genuine gap. Dunbar Drive is residential. The house serves men only, and it is the operator's single North Nashville address, which means a resident who wants this side of town and this program is looking at one specific house. Fisk University, Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College all sit in North Nashville, and the neighborhood is inside the consolidated city and county.
Four Bedrooms and Two Bathrooms in This Sober Living Home
The operator describes this house as four bedrooms and two bathrooms, with a custom kitchen, a large living room, and outdoor space that includes a front porch and a back deck. It was bought for use as recovery housing. Two bathrooms across four shared bedrooms is a tighter ratio than the operator's East Nashville houses carry, and it is the kind of detail worth knowing before move-in, because bathroom access at six in the morning decides whether a household of working men keeps its jobs. The furnishings and electronics are provided.
What the Operator's Certification Means for This Recovery Residence
The house is operated by a certified operator, listed with the Tennessee Alliance of Recovery Residences. Certification commits an operator to a published code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before anyone moves in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process that a resident can use without going through the house manager. Tennessee requires recovery residences to be certified, and the state's referral network is directed toward certified housing, which is why the credential shows up in almost every serious conversation about a Nashville placement.
North Nashville and Davidson County Recovery Housing
North Nashville sits between downtown and the Cumberland River's northern bend, with Interstate 65 and Interstate 40 both cutting through it. WeGo Public Transit runs frequent service on the main corridors, and downtown, the Davidson County courts and the county health department are all a short ride away. Recovery housing in Davidson County is concentrated on the east and west sides, so a certified men's home in North Nashville lets a resident stay in the neighborhood where his family, his church or his job already is.
Moving Into This Sober House
Applications go through A Design for Living Recovery Homes. The house runs twenty-four hour on-site staffing, frequent drug and alcohol testing, in-house twelve-step meetings and book studies, weekly life skills meetings with the house manager, and volunteer commitments at food banks and other nonprofits. Ask what the weekly fee covers, what the deposit is and how it is returned, how bedrooms are assigned in a four-bedroom house, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. A certified operator has to give those answers in writing.
