About this Recovery Home
MBMS 1 is a certified sober living home on Hungary Springs Road in Richmond, Virginia, inside the state's DBHDS Region 4. Richmond is an independent city and belongs to no county, so the city itself is the unit of geography anyone uses when they search for recovery housing here. The house is one of nine residences operated by My Brother My Sister Foundation, and it appears on Virginia's state register of recovery residences.
A Richmond Sober House on Hungary Springs Road
Hungary Springs Road runs through the residential west end of the Richmond area, a stretch of single-family streets several miles out from downtown. That location answers the question most people ask about a sober house address before they ask anything else: whether ordinary life is reachable from it. Grocery stores, pharmacies and entry-level employers sit along the nearby commercial corridors, and GRTC Transit System covers the routes into the city center where outpatient providers and court appointments are concentrated. The foundation also runs MBMS 2 next door at 3008 Hungary Springs Road, which puts two of its houses on one block.
The First of Six Numbered MBMS Houses
The foundation numbers six of its residences MBMS 1 through MBMS 6 and gives the remaining three the Evolution Network name. The numbering is a naming convention and carries no meaning about level of care or house size. All six numbered houses sit in the western band of the Richmond area, close enough together that a resident who moves from one to another keeps the same bus routes, the same pharmacy and usually the same job. MBMS 1 is the address the series starts from, and it shares a property line with MBMS 2.
Who This Richmond Recovery Housing Serves
The register describes the population as persons in need of substance abuse recovery, which is the broadest of the descriptions My Brother My Sister Foundation files for its houses. A prospective resident should read that as an adult recovery residence with no clinical program attached. People live here, hold jobs, and get their treatment from providers elsewhere in the city.
Recovery Housing in Richmond and DBHDS Region 4
Region 4 is the state's central Virginia service area, and Richmond anchors it. The city holds the state capitol, the Virginia Commonwealth University campus and hospital system, the John Marshall Courts Building and the Richmond City Justice Center, which means a resident can satisfy a probation condition, keep a medical appointment and start a class without leaving the city. Richmond recovery housing is dense by Virginia standards, and much of it clusters in exactly this west-end and north-side band.
Questions Worth Asking This Sober Living Home
Applications go through My Brother My Sister Foundation. The useful questions are the practical ones a certified operator should be able to answer without hesitation: what the weekly fee covers and what it does not, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms are assigned, what happens after a relapse, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. The same questions apply to any of the foundation's houses, and asking them at the operator level saves a second conversation. The process behind the credential is set out in this guide to certifying a sober living home in Virginia.
