Along with funding, fair housing discrimination is the largest barrier to persons in recovery accessing the  sober, safe and peer supportive housing many choose to help them start and sustain their recovery. From a federal fair housing standpoint, persons in recovery from substance use issues are “disabled” / “handicapped”. Note, this is not the restrictive Social Security eligibility definition of “disabled”. This is the purposefully inclusive civil rights definition of “disability”. This is an important distinction because “disability” is one of seven “protected classes” under the federal Fair Housing and Americans with Disabilities Acts as amended. The “protected classes” include:

Riverhouse operates as a National Alliance for Recovery Residence (NARR) compliant, Louisiana Association of Recovery Residence (LARR) Certified (Level 2), 12 Step based sober living environment/recovery residence.