MO Better Living

About MO Better Living

Mo Better Living is a sober living operator based in St. Louis, Missouri, running six recovery homes across the city for men and women rebuilding their lives after substance use.

A St. Louis Sober Living Operator

Mo Better Living describes its work as group homes for people recovering from substance use disorder, where residents stay sober and contribute to the household through shared chores. The organization runs its houses on a flat rate and a peer-support model instead of around-the-clock staff, which keeps the monthly cost predictable for residents.

Six Sober Homes in the City of St. Louis

Mo Better Living operates:

• Bryan's House, in St. Louis, for men.
• John's House, in St. Louis, for men.
• Bobby's House, in St. Louis, for men.
• Eleanore's House, in St. Louis, for women.
• Cheryl's House, in St. Louis, for women.
• The Pendleton House, run as Recovery House of St. Louis, in St. Louis, for men.

All six sit inside the city of St. Louis, which keeps residents close to the same courts, outpatient providers and job market regardless of which house they move into.

Serving Men and Women Across the Network

Four of Mo Better Living's houses serve men and two serve women, and the operator keeps each house single-gender. A resident applying to the network is considered against the house that fits, with capacity ranging from six beds at the smallest women's house to fifteen at the largest.

A Flat Rate and an Open Policy on Medication

Every Mo Better Living house charges the same five-hundred-dollar monthly rate plus a twenty-five-dollar application fee, and the operator accepts residents on any form of medication-assisted treatment, including methadone and buprenorphine, without requiring them to taper off first. That consistency across houses is part of what makes moving between them straightforward if a resident's situation changes.

Peer Support Instead of Live-In Management

Mo Better Living assigns a peer support specialist to every resident and runs a weekly house meeting in each home instead of staffing each house around the clock. The model puts day-to-day accountability on residents themselves, backed by a specialist who is the point of contact when something comes up.

Recovery Housing for the City of St. Louis

St. Louis operates as its own independent city, separate from the surrounding county, which concentrates the services a resident needs, outpatient treatment, courts, transit and entry-level jobs, inside a compact area. Mo Better Living has kept its full network of six houses inside that footprint.