Sober living home fights Utah regulations at its own peril

Joyce Tuckett's grandson went to prison for drugs. He's done his time and is ready to get out.
As a condition of his parole, when he gets out he needs to live in a sober living home. Joyce found one called NXLevel Network which had availability.

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Whatever. Private sober living places charge people $700-$1000 per person, per month, and the residents are stacked 4 to a bedroom. In a 4 bedroom house, that means the "owner" is raking in $11, 200 to $16, 000 per month--PER HOUSE--and the services don't include food or medical care or therapy. The guys sleep inches away from each other. It's worse conditions than jail.

They don't even hire staff for in-house. Their "house managers" are just residents who have been there longer than the others and who want free rent, and you can bet they're encouraged to overlook a lot of stuff. And you can bet that they play favorites. The residents are not given any help with employment

The only regulatory agency they're liable to is the Fair Housing Act, which means that they cannot discriminate based upon disability, addiction, or mental health status. They do the bare minimum they need to do to skate in under that regulatory structure.

And there is not housing security at all. Residents can be kicked out any time of the day or night. They can be thrown out for so many reasons, including complaining about the conditions. They randomly drug test their residents, and if the resident pees dirty at the beginning of the month after they've paid the month's rent, the house manager can kick them out--not releasing them to anybody, just throwing them out the front door--without refunding the month's rent, and can immediately move another guy in and charge them rent for that same month--plus a deposit--within hours of the other resident getting kicked out. The incentive is thus to kick out as many residents as possible before month's end.

There is anything BUT a family atmosphere in many of these places--residents get their stuff stolen all the time--often from the house manager--because the residents don't have their own secure personal storage area except for a small lockbox for wallets and medications.

Private sober living facilities are a scam. And the owners are going straight to hell.