Best Sober Living Homes in Texas

Sober living is a substance-free residence, not a clinical program. Residents usually work, attend outpatient treatment or an intensive outpatient program elsewhere, keep house rules, submit to drug testing and contribute to chores and rent. It suits someone whose withdrawal is already managed and who is medically and psychiatrically stable, but who would struggle to stay well in their old living situation.

Not usually as a room-and-board charge. Health plans generally pay for clinical services — outpatient sessions, dual-diagnosis care, medication-assisted treatment — rather than housing, so people often pay privately for the bed while insurance is billed for the treatment attached to it. Of the 55 Texas centers listed here, 49 report accepting private insurance and 51 report accepting self-pay, and only your own insurer and the facility can confirm what your plan does.

Texas licenses clinical treatment programs through the Health and Human Services Commission, but a recovery residence is not a clinical facility and is regulated differently. Texas recognizes voluntary accreditation of recovery housing through a state-approved credentialing organization, so ask any house whether it is accredited and by whom. Separately, 47 of the 55 centers on this page report a state license and 26 report CARF accreditation for the treatment programs they operate.

There is no fixed term. Many residents stay several months, and some stay a year or more; length usually depends on employment, outpatient progress and how stable housing looks on the other side. Ask each house about minimum stays and whether the term is tied to your outpatient schedule.

Costs are set by each house and vary widely across Texas, so ask for the weekly or monthly rate in writing, plus deposits, testing fees and what utilities and food are included. Some Texas residents use state-funded recovery support services to help with early housing costs; 34 of the 55 listings here report state-funded or free options and 34 report accepting Medicaid for services.

Typically a phone screening about your substance use history, current treatment, medications, income and work plans, followed by a house interview and a signed resident agreement. Many houses want you coming directly from detox, residential care or a structured program. Contact each house directly using its own listed details.

Someone in active withdrawal, medically unstable, in acute psychiatric crisis, or needing 24-hour nursing or supervision needs a higher level of care first. Sober living has no medical staff on site overnight. If there is immediate danger, call 911, or call or text 988.

Compare Texas locations by what is attached to the house: 52 of the 55 listings here also offer outpatient rehab and 52 offer aftercare, which matters if you want treatment and housing in the same place. Then compare house rules, testing policy, curfews, gender arrangement — 44 are co-ed, 6 men only, 4 women only — and how far it sits from your job and family.