Sober Living Facilities Raise Zoning Concerns
- Josh Stephens
- May 22, 2018
- 6 min read
An increasingly crucial part of 12-step and other addiction recovery programs, sober living homes have proliferated wildly in California in recent years. Though there is no strict definition of sober living homes, they are generally group homes that do not provide medical treatment but instead allow recovering addicts to live for a short while, often upon release from intensive detoxification centers. The idea is to give addicts comfortable, conventional places to live where residents can mutually support each other.
