H.O.W. House

About H.O.W. House

H.O.W. House is a nonprofit sober living operator providing women's recovery housing in Boston, Massachusetts, based in the Dorchester section of the city, Suffolk County.

A Women's Recovery Housing Nonprofit Since 2010

H.O.W. House has operated as its own organization since 2010, built specifically around housing women in recovery instead of existing as one property inside a larger multi-service nonprofit. That single focus has let the organization refine one program over more than a decade of continuous operation.

A Twelve-Step, Work-First Model

The organization structures its program around a simple requirement: residents work, volunteer or attend school while participating actively in a twelve-step program. That model treats daytime structure as inseparable from recovery from the first day of a resident's stay.

Serving Boston's Neighborhoods

Operating from Dorchester gives H.O.W. House access to Boston's transit network and its concentration of twelve-step meetings, outpatient providers and entry-level employers, resources the organization leans on to keep its work-first model realistic for the women it houses.

Reaching H.O.W. House

Applications go directly through the organization. Prospective residents should ask how the work, school or volunteering requirement is enforced in the first weeks after move-in, since that expectation is central to how the program runs.