About this Recovery Home
Oxford House Pollard Park Ii — Women Sober Living in Richmond, Virginia
Oxford House Pollard Park Ii is a peer-run sober living home for women, including women with children at 2914 Edgewood Avenue, Richmond, VA. The house reports space for 8 residents and 3 reported openings. The address is in Richmond County.
Oxford House Pollard Park Ii — house details
- Address: 2914 Edgewood Avenue, Richmond, VA 23222
- County: Richmond
- Resident group: women, including women with children
- Reported capacity: 8 residents
- Reported vacancies: 3 reported openings
- Interview schedule: Sunday at 5:30pm
- Contact: Contact Jelly at (202) 718-6992
- House phone: (804) 918-1277
- Map: View the reported location
At 8 beds it is about average among the 186 Oxford Houses listed in Virginia. The last report put 5 of those 8 beds in use, leaving 3 reported openings. Interview times are listed as Sunday at 5:30pm. Contact Jelly at (202) 718-6992 to confirm the opening, the interview time and what is needed to move in.
Paying for sober living in Virginia
In Virginia, a bed in sober living commonly runs about $200 a week. Oxford Houses work differently: members divide the home's real costs between them rather than paying a fixed rent, so ask the house what its share comes to. Statewide, median gross rent in Virginia runs $1,579 a month. People who cannot pay a share up front commonly use programmes such as OAA opioid-settlement grants and DBHDS/VARR indigent-bed grants. Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services is the state agency that oversees this funding.
How the Oxford House model works, and how to apply
Oxford Houses are resident-governed homes, covered by the members' equal shares and substance-free as a condition of membership. New members are approved by the members themselves, so an opening is not the same thing as an acceptance.
Recovery housing standards in Virginia
No state licence is required to run a recovery residence in Virginia. Homes that want certification apply to Virginia Association of Recovery Residences (VARR), the state NARR affiliate. An Oxford House answers to Oxford House, Inc. rather than to a state certifying body, so it rarely appears on state registers. See the state certified-residence list for homes that carry it. Protection runs from the federal Fair Housing Act and Virginia Fair Housing Law (Code of Virginia Section 36-96.3).
Nearby Oxford Houses in Richmond and Richmond County
The closest other Oxford Houses in this directory are Oxford House Kaivian in Richmond, about 0.3 miles away; Oxford House Serenity Path in Richmond, about 0.3 miles away; Oxford House Brookland Park in Richmond, about 0.4 miles away — straight-line distances, not driving routes. This directory lists 15 in Richmond, 186 in Virginia. Browse recovery housing in Richmond or sober living across Virginia.
This reflects a vacancy report from 09/08/2026. Bed counts and contacts change between updates. Verify directly with the house first.
Oxford House in Virginia
Oxford House is a publicly supported, non-profit network connecting all Oxford House recovery homes or sober houses. Oxford House sober living is a concept in recovery for a democratically run, self-supporting and drug free home. Homes range from six to fifteen; there is sober living for men, sober houses for women, and some recovery homes for women with children. Read more about Oxford House and the Sober House Directory.
In Virginia, Oxford House offers sober living typically with very reasonable cost and promoting resident recovery through a peer-supported model run by the men and women in the sober house. Established in 1975 and continuing to this day, Oxford House boasts over 2,000 homes and growing across the globe.
The Sober House Business
Oxford House offers a platform for peer-lead recovery homes. If you are interested in opening a sober house as a business venture, get in touch with Vanderburgh Communities for more information.
