Next Step Housing

About Next Step Housing

Next Step Housing is a nonprofit housing provider based in Yakima, Washington, running alcohol and drug-free residences across Yakima County since 1991. The organization manages more than two hundred units of coed, tested sober housing for people in recovery alongside people exiting homelessness and people with developmental disabilities.

A Yakima Valley Sober Living Operator

Next Step Housing describes its mission as providing quality, affordable, clean and sober housing to special needs populations in the Yakima Valley. It has done that work since 1991, which makes it one of the longer-tenured housing providers of any kind operating in the county, and its scale, more than two hundred units, is unusual for an organization built around recovery-specific and special-needs housing.

Recovery Housing in Yakima

Several of the nonprofit's residences serve people specifically in recovery, spread across addresses on Powerhouse Road, Naches Avenue, 50th Avenue, Walnut Street and 2nd Street. Each functions as a coed household under one alcohol and drug-free standard instead of a gender split, and each sits inside the city of Yakima, close to the courts, outpatient providers and employers that residents need in the early months of a new address.

Testing as the Sober Living Standard

Next Step Housing enforces its zero-tolerance alcohol and drug policy with monthly drug and breathalyzer testing across its housing. That is a stronger standard than a signed house agreement, and it is the detail that most distinguishes this operator's recovery units from ordinary rental housing: a resident who uses is tested and addressed under a known policy, not left to self-report.

Serving Special Needs Populations Beyond Recovery

The nonprofit's unit mix, from studios up to four-bedroom units, reflects a mission broader than recovery housing alone. Households exiting homelessness and residents with developmental disabilities live within the same portfolio, which means Next Step Housing operates at a scale and with an internal flexibility that a single-purpose sober living operator typically does not have.

A Long-Running Yakima County Housing Provider

Operating continuously in Yakima County since 1991 gives Next Step Housing a track record most housing providers in the recovery space cannot claim. That tenure matters to referring agencies and courts deciding where to place someone leaving treatment: the organization and its testing policy have been in place for decades, not months.

Reaching Next Step Housing

Next Step Housing can be reached directly to ask about current openings, the testing schedule and which of its addresses in Yakima best fits an individual or a household's needs.