Three Things Every Sober Living Operator Loses Sleep Over

Run a sober living home long enough and the same three problems keep coming back. They don’t go away because you hired a better house manager or wrote a stricter handbook. They’re built into the model. Here’s what they are, and what Roomi does about each one.

One person can’t be in two places at once

Most houses run on a single house manager. Job listings for the overnight shift routinely offer a free room instead of a paycheck, which tells you what the margins actually look like in this industry. That one person is supposed to know who made curfew, who did their chores, and who’s starting to slip, all while sleeping, working another job, or covering more than one property.

The Hidden HIPAA Risk in Life360 and Cozi (and What It Could Cost Your Program)

If you run a sober living home or a treatment program, there’s a good chance your house already runs on apps that were never built for it. Life360 tells you where residents are. Cozi handles the shared calendar and the chore chart. Both are free, both are easy, and both are quietly turning your operation into a compliance problem.

The apps aren’t the ones on the hook. You are.

The part most operators miss

HIPAA doesn’t care that Life360 is “just for safety.” or Cozi is “just a calendar”. It cares about what you put in them.

What 2026 Funding Changes Mean for Sober Living Operators

What 2026 Funding Changes Mean for Sober Living Operators

If you run a sober living home, PHP, or IOP, you’ve probably noticed more conversations lately about opioid settlement dollars and federal funding streams opening up for recovery housing. That’s the good news.

The less-talked-about part is that this new money comes with new strings attached. Funders, whether that’s a state agency distributing opioid settlement funds or a federal program through SAMHSA, increasingly want to see documented outcomes before they’ll write a check, and before they’ll renew one.