R3 House

About R3 House

R3 House is a sober living operator in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, running recovery homes for men and women across the city of Lancaster in Lancaster County. The organization was started by a family that had watched addiction move through it and concluded that the county needed better housing than it had.

A Lancaster Sober Living Operator Built by One Family

The founding standard R3 House sets for itself is simple: it will not ask a resident to live somewhere its own people would not live. The company owns or holds long leases on its properties and remodels them, and it staffs an executive director, a director of environments, a case manager and an operations manager. Housing quality is treated as part of the program instead of as overhead, which is a decision a resident notices on the first night.

Four Recovery Homes in the City of Lancaster

R3 House operates its residences inside the county seat:

• South Prince Street, downtown, the organization's base and shared recreation space.
• West Vine Street, on the south side of downtown, for women.
• East King Street, at the center of the city, for men.
• East Chestnut Street, on the north side of downtown, for women.

Every address is walkable to Penn Square. The cluster is tight enough that a resident who moves between houses keeps the same bus routes, the same employer and the same outpatient provider.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Kept Separate

The organization runs men's and women's residences in different buildings and tours them separately. Keeping the split at the building level means house rules, meetings and shared space are written for one population. It also gives the operator somewhere to move a resident whose household is not working out without changing the city or the program.

State Licensure Across These Recovery Homes

R3 House states plainly that it is licensed by the Commonwealth through the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, which licenses recovery houses under Act 59 of 2017, and it holds full licenses on individual Lancaster addresses. Licensure is voluntary in Pennsylvania, and a licensee may run both licensed and unlicensed houses, so anyone comparing options should confirm the status of the specific address. Certification through the Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences is a separate credential granted residence by residence.

Employment, Education and Legal Support From This Recovery Housing Provider

Residents are expected to find gainful employment, and outpatient treatment with a local provider may be part of the arrangement. Around that, the operator mentors residents in resume building, interview skills, budgeting and conflict mediation. Its affiliated Pennsylvania nonprofit, R3 Recovery Services, adds career support, education assistance, financial guidance and help navigating legal problems. The name states the sequence the organization works to: recover, restore, rebuild.

Sober Living for Lancaster County and the Surrounding Boroughs

Lancaster County has more than half a million residents, and its services concentrate in the city. Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, the county courthouse, Franklin and Marshall College, the Amtrak Keystone Line station and Red Rose Transit's bus network are all inside city limits, along with most of the county's outpatient treatment capacity. Someone leaving treatment in Ephrata, Columbia, Lititz or Mount Joy usually finds the county seat is the nearest address within reach of a job, an appointment and a meeting on the same day.

Reaching This Lancaster Sober Living Operator

Applications and walkthroughs are arranged through the organization, which weighs an applicant across its houses. At the operator level the useful questions are about the company: how long it has housed residents in Lancaster County, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers and the courts, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, and how a complaint moves past a house to the operator and then to the state.