About this Recovery Home
306 E. 32nd Street is a certified men's sober living home in Richmond, Virginia, in DBHDS Region 4. Richmond is an independent city and sits in no county, which is why recovery housing here is located to the city itself. Edgewood Group, LLC operates the house, one of seven it runs, and the state's register of recovery residences lists it.
A Men's Sober House South of the James River
The 23224 ZIP covers Richmond south of the James, the older half of the city on the Manchester side of the river. It is a practical address for a resident without a car. The bridges into downtown are short, GRTC Transit System runs the corridors, and the commercial strips along Hull Street and Broad Rock carry the retail, restaurant and warehouse jobs that most people take in the first months of recovery. Men live here, so the household, the bathrooms and the house expectations are written for one population.
The One Edgewood House That Stands on Its Own
Every other residence this operator runs has a sister house next door or a few doors down. Four are in a row on Monticello Street in Petersburg, and two are side by side on 3rd Avenue in north Richmond. This one is the exception. It sits alone on the south side of the river, in a part of the city with its own commercial strips, its own bus routes and its own character. For some residents that is the reason to choose it. A house with no sister address next door is quieter, is less visible as recovery housing to the surrounding street, and puts a resident further from anyone he knew before. For others the isolation is the drawback, and those residents are better served at one of the clustered addresses.
Two Cities, One Sober Living Operator
Edgewood Group, LLC runs three houses in Richmond and four in Petersburg, twenty-five miles south. The two-city footprint has a specific use for a resident: a man whose job, family or court obligations sit at one end of the Interstate 95 corridor can be housed near them without changing operators. It also means an application reaches openings in both cities at once.
South Richmond Inside DBHDS Region 4
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth and the hub of Region 4. The Virginia Commonwealth University health system, the city's outpatient providers, the John Marshall Courts Building, the Richmond City Justice Center and the state agencies that administer recovery funding are all inside city limits. South Richmond has historically carried a substantial share of the city's recovery housing, and its appeal is the combination of lower rents and a direct route downtown.
What to Ask This Richmond Sober House Before Moving In
Placement runs through the operator. Ask what the weekly fee covers and what falls outside it, whether the deposit is returned and under what conditions, who is on site overnight, how bedrooms are assigned, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and what the house does after a relapse. Virginia's recovery residence certification standards require a certified operator to put those answers in writing.
