N Street Village

About N Street Village

N Street Village is a recovery housing provider in Washington, D.C., serving women experiencing homelessness and low-income women across eight locations in the city. The organization runs a continuum that reaches from a day center and night shelter through transitional housing, recovery housing and permanent supportive housing, and it houses more than eight hundred women along with a small number of families.

A Women's Sober Living Operator Working at Both Ends of a Continuum

Most organizations in this field pick a point on the spectrum. This one holds both ends. A woman can arrive at the day center for a shower and a meal with no appointment and no paperwork, and the same organization can eventually place her in permanent supportive housing with round-the-clock staff. Recovery housing sits in the middle of that arc, which means a resident is rarely handed to strangers when her needs change.

Recovery Homes Across Eight Washington Locations

The organization's sites include Miriam's House for women living with HIV, Diane's House, Adam's Place for Women, and Capitol Vista, which added twenty-one units of permanent supportive housing with twenty-four-hour staff and care. A Greenhouse Recovery Program and vocational and technology centers operate alongside the housing. The concentration in and around the downtown core keeps residents inside one transit and service network as they move between programs.

A Recovery Housing Provider Led by Lived Experience

The organization states plainly that it relies on the voice of lived experience to guide its mission, and its outcomes reporting is equally direct: the overwhelming majority of the women it serves enter with no income or with income below the federal poverty line, and most have been homeless for more than a year. Naming that population precisely is what allows a program to be designed for it, and it tells a prospective resident whether she is the person this place was built for.

Recovery Residence Standards in a District That Publishes None

The District of Columbia maintains no registry of recovery residences and no certification scheme for them, and hosts no affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. For a Washington recovery housing provider, that leaves organizational scale, published outcomes and length of service as the record available for inspection. This organization publishes all three.

Serving Women Across the District of Columbia

Programs are concentrated in the downtown and Logan Circle area, within reach of the Metrorail lines that converge at Metro Center and McPherson Square and the bus corridors running east and north. Women arrive from every quadrant of the city. Placing services in the center puts them within reach of a population that often has no fare and no car, which is a practical reason the location is what it is.