Harwood Houses

About Harwood Houses

Harwood Houses is a sober living operator based in Lynn, Massachusetts, running certified recovery residences across Essex and Middlesex counties. The company houses men, women and coed households across five addresses on Boston's North Shore, all overseen through a single office and a single set of house rules.

A North Shore Recovery Housing Provider

Harwood Houses supplies the housing, and treats recovery itself as the resident's own work, carried out through outside meetings and outpatient providers. What the operator controls is the address, the rules and who else lives there. Every property is described by the company as updated and clean, with off-street parking and a location within reach of public transit, which keeps a job or a meeting reachable without a car.

Structure Across Every Harwood Sober Living Home

Harwood Houses runs a zero-tolerance policy for drugs and alcohol at every address, backed by drug testing twice a week. Residents are expected to attend recovery meetings of their choosing, take part in house meetings and share in household chores. A live-in manager is present at each residence, so the rules apply the same way whether someone is staying in Lynn or Malden.

Serving Lynn and Malden

Five sober living homes carry the Harwood Houses name in this directory:

• 15 Hovey Terrace, Lynn, for women.
• 18 Maplewood Street, Malden, coed.
• 19 Hanover Street, Lynn, coed.
• 3 Lewis Street, Lynn, for men.
• 61 Breed Street, Lynn, coed.

Four of the five sit in Lynn, with the fifth just across the Middlesex County line in Malden. That concentration means a resident who transfers between Harwood addresses keeps the same city, the same on-site manager model and often the same commute.

Men, Women and Coed Sober Houses

The portfolio covers more ground than a single-gender operator: a men's house on Lewis Street, a women's house on Hovey Terrace, and three coed households split by floor or wing. That range lets Harwood Houses place a referral quickly, without waiting on a single bed type to open.

MASH Certification Across the Harwood Portfolio

Each of the five residences is certified by the Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing, the state's NARR affiliate. Certification binds every Harwood address 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.

One Contact for Every Harwood Address

Applications for any of the five houses go through the same Harwood Houses office. That single point of contact is useful for a case manager or family placing someone from out of town: one call establishes what is open, in which city, and for which gender, across the whole North Shore portfolio.