About this Recovery Home
The FROG Houses is a recovery housing program in Richmond, Virginia, serving both men and women. Richmond is an independent city under Virginia law and belongs to no county, so this address answers to the city and to the state alone.
A Men's and Women's Sober House Program in Richmond
The listing covers recovery housing for men and for women, run under a single name by True Recovery RVA, one of the larger recovery housing providers in the Richmond region. The street address is not published, and placement runs through the operator, so an applicant starts with the organization instead of with a doorbell. That is the ordinary route for recovery housing in this market, where operators fill beds through referrals from treatment providers, community services boards and courts long before a vacancy reaches a public listing.
How Virginia Regulates Its Recovery Residences
Virginia is one of a small number of states where recovery residence certification is compulsory. Under state law, operating an uncertified recovery residence is a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the state recognizes exactly two credentialing bodies: VARR, the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences, and Oxford House. That structure changes what a resident should ask. In most states the question is whether anyone has ever looked at the house. Here the question is which body holds its credential and what the certificate covers, and those are questions an operator is expected to answer directly.
Richmond Recovery Housing and the Reach of the City
Richmond concentrates the region's recovery infrastructure inside a small footprint. Outpatient providers, VCU Health, the John Marshall Courts Building, methadone and buprenorphine prescribers, and the retail, warehouse and food service employment that fills most first jobs after treatment are all reachable on the GRTC network, including the Pulse line along Broad Street. People leaving treatment in the counties around the capital frequently find the city is the nearest place where a job, an appointment and a meeting all fit into one day without a car. That is the practical argument for recovery housing inside the city limits.
The Sober Living Operator Behind This Program
True Recovery RVA was founded in 2017 and runs a large certified portfolio across Richmond, Henrico County and Chesterfield County, at two levels of support, alongside clinically staffed program houses for residents who need more than monitored housing. Its team runs to roughly two dozen people, and the organization says nearly every staff member is in recovery. For an applicant, the size of the portfolio is the useful part: one conversation is considered against many addresses and more than one level of structure.
What to Ask Before Moving Into This Richmond Recovery Home
Because the address and the house-level details are not published, the questions matter more than usual. Ask which certifying body holds the credential for the specific house being offered and at what level. Ask whether men and women are housed in separate buildings or separate parts of one. Ask what the weekly fee covers and excludes, whether the deposit is refundable, who is in the house overnight, how bedrooms are assigned, what a relapse triggers, and whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. A certified Virginia recovery residence is obliged to put those answers in writing before anyone signs.
