The house

A house in Petersburg, run to a standard

A monitored recovery residence for men — men in recovery from a substance use disorder, including men coming home from incarceration. A paid house manager, written rules, one published price, and the program inside it.

What it is

Item	Detail
Level	NARR Level II — monitored. A paid house manager, written house rules, peer leaders, and sobriety as a condition of residency
Beds	Set per house. Call for what is open today
Who lives here	Men in recovery, 18 and over. Men on prescribed medication for addiction treatment are full and equal residents
Program	The twelve-week program runs inside the house. It is voluntary. Declining it is never a reason for a warning or a discharge
Credentialing body	Virginia Association of Recovery Residences. Accreditation application submitted September 2026
State certification	Eligible to apply for conditional certification on submission of policies. No house is described as certified until the certificate exists

What it costs

$205 per bed, per week, whoever pays

The resident, a sponsor, a church, an agency, or a public program — including the state's bed-assistance program through DBHDS, for a man who arrives with nothing. One published rate, every house, no exceptions. No discount for anyone, ever — gaps are filled by sponsors, approved programs, or a deferred start, so every man is treated alike.

Item	Detail
Intake fee	$100, once
Late fee	$10, capped at $20
What the fee covers	Utilities, Wi-Fi, basic supplies, and screening
Never charged	No fee to apply. No fee for the waitlist. No charge for the resource directory or for help finding other housing
If you give notice	Seven days' notice, a discharge, or leaving for a hospital, treatment, or custody: unused prepaid days are refunded. If BMV ends the stay, every unused day comes back regardless of notice
If the state pays for his bed	He is charged nothing for those nights. Half the beds at most are on a public program at one time, so the house stays open if the program does not. A man on a funded bed starts the Work Desk in his first week, so the day the funding ends is not the day he has to leave

How a man gets here

Call. One conversation, no form to start. Tell us his situation, his release or move date, and how the first weeks will be paid.
He applies. Every applicant is asked the same questions, in the same words. Any lawful source of funds is accepted. Refusing someone over a lawful source of income is illegal and we do not do it.
Paperwork before the bed. Intake packet, house rules, resident rights, and any sponsor letter, signed before move-in.
If there is no bed today, he goes on the waitlist in the order he applied, and we call the day one opens. Target: every empty bed refilled within seven days.

Two rules worth knowing first

No marijuana in this house — including medical cannabis

A man is told this before he applies, never after he moves in. BMV does not ask anyone about a medical condition. A man who uses medical cannabis gets the policy in writing, the resource directory, and help finding housing that fits, at no charge. The rule is this strict because most men here are under supervision that prohibits marijuana whatever state law says, and because the house's certification rests on being drug-free.

Nobody is paid to send anyone here

BMV neither pays nor accepts anything of value for a referral, in either direction. No resident is ever required to use a service BMV benefits from, and where a man gets treatment never affects his place in this house.

For the block

What we promise our neighbors

The best-kept house on the street. Clean, lit, secure, and staffed. We walk the property every quarter with a punch list and fix what we find.
Quiet hours. 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. outdoors, 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. indoors, and neighborly noise at every other hour.
No loitering in front of the house or on anyone else's property. Smoking in a designated area only. Parking in designated spaces only.
Alcohol-free and drug-free, including marijuana. That is the standard the state certification rests on.
One named person answers for this house. The community liaison is responsible for relations with neighbors, police, and the city. The post is never vacant. When the house manager changes, we come and introduce the new one in person.

If something happens

Call the liaison first, any hour: (804) 790-9169, answered by a person. Your complaint is logged the same day, you get a call back within one business day, and it is resolved or escalated within three. If it is an emergency, call 911 first — then call us, so we know.

We will not tell you anything about any resident — who he is, why he is here, or anything he has said — and we will not ask you to keep any secret. If a resident's conduct affects you, that conduct is the conversation. His history is not.