Jubilee Housing

About Jubilee Housing

Jubilee Housing is a sober living operator and affordable housing developer in Washington, D.C., running drug- and alcohol-free reentry homes in Ward 1. The organization was founded in 1973 by members of the Church of the Saviour, who bought two Adams Morgan apartment buildings to address substandard housing in the neighborhood. It now holds thirteen properties across Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant.

A Ward 1 Recovery Housing Provider

Two reentry homes carry the Jubilee name, one for ten men and one for ten women, alongside long-term studio apartments dedicated to justice-involved residents. Street addresses for the homes are not published, and applications run through the organization rather than through any individual house. Both sit inside the Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights footprint the organization has worked since the 1970s.

Men's and Women's Recovery Homes Under One Program

The Reentry Housing Initiative opened in 2011 and runs its men's and women's houses as separate single-gender households. A staffed Recovery Services Coordinator provides alcohol and drug recovery supports across both homes and the studio apartments, which is what distinguishes this from general transitional housing. Case management, money management and employment support run alongside the recovery work.

Housing Placed Deliberately in an Expensive Neighborhood

Jubilee's governing idea is that people do better in mixed-income neighborhoods, and the organization has built its portfolio to put low-income residents inside one of the most resourced parts of the District rather than at its edges. Two thirds of its units are reserved for households at or below thirty percent of area median income. For a resident of a Jubilee recovery home, that means an address with grocery stores, jobs, transit and a functioning commercial corridor within walking distance.

A Sober Living Operator With a Long Local Record

The organization has run supportive reentry housing in Adams Morgan for over a decade, serving several hundred returning citizens. That record matters more than usual in the District, which maintains no recovery residence registry and licenses no sober living category, leaving prospective residents with no public list to check. Tenure, published program terms and a named point of contact are what remain.

Serving Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant

All three neighborhoods sit in Ward 1 along the same north-south corridor, served by Green and Yellow Line stations and the bus routes running 14th Street and 16th Street. A resident changing programs or moving from a reentry home into one of the organization's long-term apartments keeps the same neighborhood, the same transit and, often, the same staff.