411 NE 19th Avenue

About 411 NE 19th Avenue

411 NE 19th Avenue is a sober living operator in Portland, Oregon, running coed recovery housing in Multnomah County, in the Kerns neighborhood on the city's inner east side.

A Small Sober Living Operator on Portland's Inner East Side

Much of Portland's recovery housing is run at this scale, by people who own or lease a single property and manage it directly. The trade for a resident is concrete. Admissions, fees and discharge are decided by someone reachable in the same city, and there is no regional office to escalate to. Small operators publish little, advertise less, and answer the phone on their own schedule, so most of what an applicant learns comes from asking. Very little of it can be read anywhere.

What Oregon Asks of a Recovery Housing Provider

Oregon licenses treatment facilities and leaves recovery residences alone. No state agency registers them, inspects them or publishes a list of them. The one credential available is voluntary accreditation from the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and it is granted to the organization running the housing. Accreditation commits a provider to a code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before anyone signs, and to a complaint route that leads outside the house. An unaccredited operator can still run a sound household. There is simply less on the public record, and the weight shifts onto what an applicant can get in writing.

Company Questions for This Portland Recovery Housing Provider

The questions that belong at the operator level are different from the ones about a bedroom:

1. How long the operator has housed residents in Portland, and at how many addresses.
2. Whether it accepts referrals from treatment providers, peer recovery centers, drug court or county behavioral health.
3. How rent, deposits and any fees are documented, and what triggers a refund.
4. Who a resident complains to when the house manager is the problem.
5. Whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted as a matter of policy.

An operator with those five answers ready has thought about the parts of the work that happen after move-in day.

Recovery Housing Supply in Multnomah County

Multnomah County holds the deepest concentration of recovery infrastructure in Oregon: outpatient providers, peer-run centers, drug court, and meetings running at every hour somewhere in the city. Portland is the county seat, so probation check-ins, benefits appointments and court dates all sit in the same city as the bed. Demand runs ahead of supply here anyway, which is why single-house operators matter to the total. They hold a meaningful share of the county's beds between them.

Applying to a Sober Living Operator in Kerns

Inquiries go to whoever manages the property, and the useful move is to ask for terms in writing before committing to a move-in date. Get the weekly or monthly figure and what it covers, the house rules, the testing policy, and the relapse and discharge policy. A resident who has all four on paper is in a far stronger position on the day something goes wrong than one who was told about them.