About this Recovery Home
Hensley House is a men's sober living home on Pebble Brook Drive in Austin, Texas, in Travis County, the state capital and the county seat. Hensley Recovery runs three houses side by side on the same block, near Cameron Road and Highway 183 in northeast Austin, and they operate as one program sharing a backyard.
A Men's Sober House on Pebble Brook Drive
This is a men's program and the operator says so plainly. Each of the three adjacent houses holds eleven residents and two house managers, so a man moving in joins a household of thirteen with two of them responsible for it, and the wider community across the three properties runs to more than thirty men in recovery. That scale is the point. It is large enough that somebody is always awake and always available, and small enough inside each house that nobody goes unnoticed for a week.
House Expectations in This Austin Recovery Home
The rules are published and they are not negotiable:
- Employment within two weeks of moving in.
- A weekly meeting with a sponsor.
- Mandatory attendance at the Sunday house meeting.
- Daily chores assigned across the household.
- Drug and alcohol testing.
The two-week employment rule tells a prospective resident exactly what the house is for. Men arrive expecting to work, and every other expectation is built on the assumption that the day already has a shape.
What the Fee Covers in This Sober Living Home
The program fee covers utilities, bedding, group outings and most household costs. Food and toiletries are the resident's own. That division is worth understanding before move-in, because it sets the real weekly budget: rent plus groceries, with the employment requirement making both achievable inside the first month.
Certification of Sober Homes in Texas
Texas has no licensing or inspection regime for recovery residences. The one external standard is voluntary certification through the Texas Recovery Oriented Housing Network, and the great majority of Texas sober homes are private operations that have never applied. Absence from that list says nothing about a house. What a resident can evaluate instead is what the operator publishes: house rules, capacity, staffing and what the fee includes. Hensley Recovery publishes all four, which is more than many houses put in writing.
Recovery Housing in Austin and Travis County
Northeast Austin puts a resident inside the Highway 183 and Cameron Road corridor, an area of light industry, warehousing, auto shops and restaurants that hires steadily and is reachable by Capital Metro bus service. Downtown, the Travis County courthouse and the state offices are a short run southwest. Austin's recovery community is large and its meeting list runs from early morning to late night across the city. For a man working the two-week employment requirement, this part of Travis County is one of the more practical addresses in the metro: the jobs are close, the buses run, and the rest of the city is reachable without a car.
Applying to the Pebble Brook Drive Houses
Applications go to Hensley Recovery, which places men across the three houses on the block by fit and by what is open. Worth asking at intake: what the monthly fee is, what deposit is required, how the two-week employment rule is enforced, how a relapse is handled, whether a resident on prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how long men typically stay before moving on.
ABOUT US
There is a ping pong table, full gym in the garage, pool table, air hockey table, football table, an entire wall of Nerf dart guns, a dart board, standup shooter arcade game, large swimming pool and jacuzzi, 70 inch LED high definition television, and a separate 55 inch gaming television with multiple gaming platforms all to provide fun activities for the residents, boredom is not an issue.
Sober living homes are group residences for people who are recovering from addiction. In most instances, people who live in sober homes have to follow certain house rules and contribute to the home by doing chores. Most importantly, residents must stay sober throughout their stay in the home.
