Grace Sober Living Homes

About Grace Sober Living Homes

Grace Sober Living Homes is a Christian sober living operator based in Phoenix, Arizona, running certified recovery housing across Maricopa County. The nonprofit was founded in memory of Scott Walker, whose vision was a sober living organization run with honesty, integrity and care, and it now operates four residences serving men and women in early recovery.

A Faith-Based Sober Living Operator in Phoenix

Grace Sober Living Homes runs its houses as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, not a for-profit landlord, and that structure shapes how the homes are run. Rent, house rules and program expectations are set by a board answerable to Arizona's nonprofit reporting requirements rather than to outside investors. The organization describes its mission as providing Christ-centered recovery care and housing to people overcoming drug and alcohol addiction, and residents can expect a faith component built into daily structure rather than treated as optional.

Men's and Women's Sober Homes in the Valley

The operator keeps its houses single-gender. Two properties serve men, one serves women, and a fourth, Casa Milagra, houses men across a four-building community in central Phoenix. Splitting by gender at the house level means bathrooms, meetings and house rules apply to one population only, which matters in a program built around shared accountability.

What AzRHA Certification Establishes

At least one Grace Sober Living Homes house carries certification from the Arizona Recovery Housing Association, the state's NARR affiliate. Certification commits a residence to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, and a complaint process that runs outside the house itself. In a state where recovery residences are not licensed as their own category, that record is one of the few things a family can check before choosing a house.

The Casa Milagra Recovery Community

Casa Milagra is the operator's largest property, a cluster of four separate buildings sharing one address in central Phoenix rather than a single house. Grace Sober Living Homes markets it as one community while housing residents across those four structures, which gives Casa Milagra more capacity and more built-in peer network than any single-address home in the portfolio.

Nonprofit Status and Public Accountability

Grace Sober Living Homes is registered with the IRS as a tax-exempt charitable organization and holds Qualifying Charitable Organization status with the state of Arizona, which means its finances are subject to public reporting that a private landlord does not have to meet. For a family vetting a sober living operator from out of state, that paperwork trail is a second, independent record alongside AzRHA certification.

Serving Maricopa County's Recovery Community

All four Grace Sober Living Homes properties sit inside Maricopa County, within reach of Phoenix's outpatient treatment providers, court system and public transit. Residents moving between the operator's houses, or referred in from treatment elsewhere in the Valley, stay inside the same service area the whole time.

Reaching Grace Sober Living Homes

Applications go through the organization directly. Because Grace Sober Living Homes runs its housing as a nonprofit, the questions worth asking are the ones a charitable structure should be able to answer clearly: how fees are set and disclosed, whether a house manager lives on site, what the faith component involves day to day, and how a resident escalates a concern past the house to the organization and then to AzRHA.