How to Open a Sober Living Home in Corpus Christi, TX (2026)

Opening a sober living home in Corpus Christi means working inside three sets of rules at once, and not one of them is a sober living rule. Texas requires no state license for a non-clinical, peer-supported recovery home, and the state rule says a recovery house “is encouraged to seek and maintain accreditation but is not required to be accredited to operate in the state of Texas” (26 TAC 571.4(a)). The city has no sober living ordinance, so the house is classified by the Unified Development Code’s own definition of family, which admits “up to four boarders or roomers” each holding a rental contract for at least 30 consecutive days (UDC section 1.11). Nueces County has no zoning power to add a third layer (Local Government Code chapter 231). The need behind all of it is documented: 66 drug overdose deaths in the county in the twelve months ending December 2025 (CDC provisional county counts), 733 people counted as homeless in January 2026 with 107 adults reporting a substance use disorder (Texas Homeless Network), and 248 licensed residential treatment beds discharging into a county with zero certified recovery residences (TROHN directory).

What is specific to Corpus Christi here is the part that decides whether a house works: how the code classifies it and where the four-boarder cap bites, the group-housing ordinance the city did pass and the amendment it did not, the city desks that issue a zoning determination and a certificate of occupancy, the local cost anchors and the coastal insurance line, and the agencies that decide whether beds fill. Statewide licensing, the TROHN process and the full cost model belong to the Texas guide and are not repeated here. Where this page carries a shared number, it restates the state figure and adjusts only the lines Corpus Christi actually changes.

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Is Corpus Christi a Good Place to Open a Sober Living Home?

Yes, on private pay, and for a reason that has nothing to do with search volume: this is a documented market with no certified competition. Eleven Oxford Houses and 248 licensed residential treatment beds show demand that already exists, and not one recovery residence in the county holds TROHN certification. The caveat is money. No local program pays for a recovery housing bed, the voucher waiting list is closed, and the state screening office is 150 miles away in Edinburg, so a house here is underwritten on residents paying their own rent.

Recovery Housing Demand in Nueces County

Demand in Corpus Christi arrives through five doors, and four of them are institutions that discharge people on a schedule.

• Residential treatment discharge: Two licensed residential programs hold 248 beds between them, Cenikor at 801 Cantwell Drive with 90 and the Avalon transitional center with 158 (HHSC licensed facility list). Everyone they discharge needs an address the same week.
• Outpatient caseloads: Nine outpatient sites carry 975 licensed slots, four times the residential capacity (HHSC licensed facility list). Those clients sleep somewhere unsupervised tonight, and where that is decides whether the episode holds.
• The courts and probation: Four specialty courts are registered in the county, including the Divert Court and a veterans treatment court (Office of Court Administration registry). Probation runs its own residential facility on a $2.5 million line with a year of mandated aftercare behind it (FY2026 community supervision funding).
• The jail: The county jail held 1,007 people on August 1, 2026 against 1,164 rated beds (Texas Commission on Jail Standards). Release without an address is the single most reliable way back into that building.
• The homelessness response and the fellowship: The January 2026 count found 733 people, 107 of them adults reporting a substance use disorder (Texas Homeless Network). Alongside that, the Coastal Bend intergroup lists 136 weekly meetings inside the city (AA meeting list) and the Coastal Bend area of Narcotics Anonymous lists 36 (Narcotics Anonymous).

These are the numbers a lender asks for, and the ones a discharge planner already knows.

Texas scores 8 out of 10 on VSL’s Operating Climate Index (Foote, 2026), ranked fourth and classified Lightly Regulated, with Market Strength rubric-scored at 10, the highest of the six weighted sub-indices. The scores are assigned against published anchored rubrics rather than measured. What Corpus Christi contributes to that Market Strength reading is population without supply: 317,247 residents, 248 licensed residential treatment beds, and no certified recovery residence anywhere in the county.

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How to Open a Sober House in Corpus Christi: Step-by-Step

The statewide sequence lives in the Texas guide, and this version is ordered for Corpus Christi. It differs in two places. The district check and the resident-count decision happen together in step one, because here the count decides the district rather than the reverse. The insurance quote moves ahead of the documents, because in a first-tier coastal county a wind and hail number can end a deal. Plan on five to seven months from first search to first resident.

Ten steps, in the order the risk actually arrives.

Here is how the phases usually fall in this city.

Timelines are estimated. Timelines are estimated. What adds months in Corpus Christi is a certificate of occupancy question on a house with unpermitted work, a windstorm certification that needs an inspection before a carrier will bind, and the 50 percent occupancy for 60 days that TROHN requires before it will even consider an application.

Best Neighborhoods for a Sober Living Home in Corpus Christi

A workable address in Corpus Christi passes four tests, and the geography of this city means an address rarely passes all four.

• The bedroom count: A four-bedroom house at the four-boarder cap is the shape that works here, so areas where three or more bedrooms are the norm are the only ones worth touring. That rules more of the city in than most operators expect and rules out the downtown ZIPs almost entirely.
• The route map: A resident without a car needs a route, not a bus stop on a map. Corpus Christi runs 27 fixed routes on a $0.75 fare (CCRTA fares), and coverage thins sharply toward Calallen and the islands.
• The referral drive: Cenikor, the probation department, the VA clinic, Spohn Shoreline and the local mental health authority sit in a band running from Cantwell Drive through Old Brownsville Road to South Port Avenue. A house that is a 15-minute drive from that band is a house a discharge planner can actually use.
• The water: Nueces County is a first-tier coastal county in the TWIA catastrophe area (TWIA eligibility) and the city maps evacuation zones by neighborhood (city evacuation maps). Check the address against the flood maps effective October 13, 2022 before the offer, not after (city flood portal).

Five areas follow. The housing figures come from the city’s own area development plans and from American Community Survey five-year estimates by ZIP code, and the transit detail from the Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority.

Inside any of those areas, four features decide whether a specific house works.

• Two full bathrooms, minimum: Four residents plus a live-in house mentor on one bathroom is the complaint that ends a certification review. It is also the fastest way to lose residents to the Oxford House down the street.
• Off-street parking that matches the bedrooms: The city caps a community home at one vehicle per bedroom (UDC section 5.2.26) and parks group living at one space per two bedrooms. Street parking is the detail neighbors count.
• Wiring and plumbing that survive a full house: More than 4,300 of the 6,884 units in the 78404 ZIP predate 1960 (ACS 2019-2023). An older house priced low is often a rewiring budget with a roof on it.
• A permitted bedroom count on file: Pull the property record before the offer (Nueces County Appraisal District search) and match it against what the listing claims. The change-of-use certificate of occupancy fee is $350.00, and the work behind it costs more (FY2026 fee schedule).

Who Regulates Sober Living Homes in Corpus Christi?

No single agency regulates a sober living home in Corpus Christi, which is why the question feels harder than it is. The state licenses treatment and not housing (26 TAC 571.4), TROHN certifies voluntarily against the NARR standard (TROHN), the city controls the use category, the building and the fire code (city construction codes), and the county controls nothing inside city limits (Local Government Code 211.003).

A sober living home is a shared residence where people in recovery live under house rules, pay their own rent, and get no treatment on site. That last clause is what keeps it outside state licensure, because Health and Safety Code 464.002 reaches anyone who offers or purports to offer chemical dependency treatment. The city has never written its own definition, so the closest thing on its books is the community home standard it adopted from state law in 2017 (UDC section 5.2.26).

The short version, for an operator deciding what to worry about:

• State license: None. No license exists for a home that provides no treatment, and one becomes mandatory the moment it does (chapter 464).
• City license: None. Corpus Christi issues no general business license and no residential rental registration (city rental registration).
• Certification: Voluntary, unclaimed, and effectively the price of being referable. Zero certified homes in the county today (TROHN directory).
• Referrals: Private pay, courts, probation aftercare and treatment discharge. No local program pays for a bed, and the state door is in Edinburg (Region 11 screening).

Licensing is the easy part here, and it is the part most operators spend their time on. The layer that actually constrains a Corpus Christi operator is the use category, because the difference between four residents and six is the difference between every single-family district in the city and two commercial districts by special permit.

Corpus Christi Zoning Laws for Sober Living Homes

Corpus Christi has no sober living ordinance, no spacing rule for recovery housing, and no resident cap aimed at it. A search of the city legislative database, the full text of the Unified Development Code and the county agenda system on September 17, 2026 returned no ordinance, text amendment, moratorium or policy naming sober living, recovery housing, recovery residences, boarding homes or halfway houses (city legislative records). What governs instead is the definition of family, the Group Living and Social Service use categories, and the use tables that place them (Unified Development Code).

How the Unified Development Code Treats a Sober Living Home

The code carries no sober living category at all. The words sober, recovery, halfway and residential treatment do not appear in it. Classification therefore runs through four definitions and the use tables behind them.

• Family: “A person or persons, occupying a dwelling, living together and maintaining a common household, which may include up to four boarders or roomers if each has a rental contract to occupy the dwelling for at least 30 consecutive days” (UDC section 1.11). No headcount cap, no unrelated-persons test, and a hard limit of four boarders.
• Community Home: “A place where food, shelter, personal guidance, care, habilitation services and supervision are provided to not more than six persons with a disability,” qualified under chapter 123 (UDC section 1.11). Permitted by right in every residential district, with a six-resident and two-supervisor cap and a half-mile separation from another community home (UDC section 5.2.26).
• Group Living: “Residential occupancy of a structure by a group of people that does not meet the definition of Household Living,” and the category that holds boarding, rooming and lodging houses and group homes of six or fewer (UDC section 5.1.2.B). It appears in the multifamily and most commercial districts and in no single-family district at all (use table 4.3.2).
• Social Service: Uses that “primarily provide treatment of those with psychiatric, alcohol, or drug problems,” expressly including a “group home for drug and alcohol treatment” and a “treatment center” (UDC section 5.1.3.H). Permitted by special permit in CG-1 and CI only, by right in light industrial, and nowhere residential (use tables 4.5.2 and 4.6.2).
• What the residential districts allow: A group home of six or fewer residents and a community home are permitted uses in every single-family district from FR through RS-4.5 (use table 4.3.2). Group Living has no row in that table, which is the whole game.

A house is analysed as a household while it satisfies the family definition, and it is exposed the moment it does not. The city has never published a memo on sober living specifically, so the strongest evidence of its position is what it did instead: in 2017 it codified the state community home standard and stopped there (Ordinance 031205), and when its own Planning Commission recommended opening social service uses to eleven commercial districts and heavy industrial, the City Council never adopted it (file 17-0185). The code the city actually enforces today is the pre-amendment one.

What the Six-or-Fewer Rule Does and Does Not Do

The rule gets quoted as: Texas lets six unrelated people with disabilities live together in any residential zone, so a six-bed sober house is protected. The statute behind it is real and the conclusion does not follow, because the protection attaches to a specific kind of operator running a specific kind of program.

• Texas Human Resources Code 123.003(a): The community home use “is a use by right that is authorized in any district zoned as residential” (chapter 123). That is the six-or-fewer rule people quote, and it is real.
• Texas Human Resources Code 123.004: The same chapter limits the protection to homes operated by HHSC, a community center under Health and Safety Code chapter 534, a Texas nonprofit corporation, an ICF-IID provider, or a licensed assisted living facility (chapter 123). It also requires habilitation services, which a peer-supported home does not provide.
• What that leaves an ordinary sober living home: Nothing from chapter 123. A for-profit LLC running a peer-supported house is not a qualifying operator, so the by-right residential authorization it promises does not reach the house, and the classification falls back to the family definition and the Group Living table (UDC section 5.1.2.B).

The protection that does reach an ordinary recovery home is federal, and in this city it has a specific address. People in recovery from substance use disorder are a protected class under the Fair Housing Act, so a city’s use of its zoning power to exclude them is reachable, and a municipality carries a duty to consider a request for reasonable accommodation where its rules would otherwise bar the home. In Corpus Christi that conversation starts at Development Services, and if the answer is no the route is the special permit, which is a Planning Commission recommendation and a City Council vote rather than an administrative decision (UDC section 3.6). That is the path the Salvation Army and Hope House rezonings actually took here (Ordinance 030862). The zoning protections applying to recovery housing are the ground an operator stands on, not chapter 123.

Ordinance 031205, and the 2017 Amendment the Council Never Passed

The city’s one adopted group-housing action is Ordinance 031205, enacted August 8, 2017 after a Planning Commission text amendment in June and two Council readings (files 17-0726 and 17-0838). Its title is “Ordinance amending the Unified Development Code to codify Community Home use in residential districts,” and it does three things.

1. Add “Community Home” to the definitions in section 1.11, tracking the chapter 123 language word for word.
2. Add the community home as a principal use inside Group Living, and add a permitted-use row for it to the single-family and multifamily use tables.
3. Create section 5.2.26, with the six-resident and two-supervisor cap, the half-mile separation between community homes, the licensing requirement and the one-vehicle-per-bedroom limit.

What did not change on that date is everything that governs a sober living home. Ordinance 031205 never mentions sober living, recovery housing or substance use disorder; it tracks Texas Human Resources Code chapter 123 word for word, and chapter 123 limits its by-right protection to HHSC-operated homes, community centers, Texas nonprofit corporations, ICF-IID providers and licensed assisted living facilities providing habilitation services (chapter 123). The separate 2017 attempt to broaden where social service uses may locate was recommended by the Planning Commission on January 25, 2017 and never enacted (the agenda memorandum), which is why the published use tables still show a special permit in CG-1 and CI only (table 4.5.2). No rule adopted by this city binds a peer-supported recovery home today beyond the family definition itself.

• City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc., 514 U.S. 725 (1995): The Supreme Court held that a single-family zoning rule defining who counts as a family is not a maximum occupancy restriction exempt from the Fair Housing Act, so it can be challenged. A functional family definition like this city’s is the kind of provision that survives that challenge better than a blood-relation test would.
• Texas Human Resources Code chapter 123 and the city’s own section 5.2.26: The city codified the state community home standard rather than writing its own recovery housing rule (UDC section 5.2.26). Read together they show the city regulating this space only where state law told it to.
• Local Government Code 244.002, applied in Nueces County on November 20, 2013: The county recorded a halfway house notice from a correctional operator and concluded it had only to be notified, not to approve (chapter 244). It is the clearest published statement that the county has no regulatory role here (county and city records).

Four moves follow from that, and all of them happen before an offer.

1. Pull the zoning district for the exact address on the city zoning map (City of Corpus Christi Zoning Districts map), then buy the written determination for $199.65 rather than relying on the viewer (form DSD-4002).
2. Fix the resident count at four rent-paying residents plus a live-in house mentor and write each resident agreement for at least 30 consecutive days.
3. Put the no-treatment posture in the policies and keep it out of the marketing. The phrase that offers a program of treatment is what reclassifies the use, and it usually appears on a website before it appears in a house.
4. If the plan needs six or more residents, accept that the search moves to RM-1 through RM-AT or a commercial district, and price a City Council special permit into the timeline rather than discovering it later.

Corpus Christi Fire and Building Code Rules for Sober Living Homes

A single-family sober living home in Corpus Christi is an R-3 under the 2021 International Building Code, or may comply with the International Residential Code outright, as long as no more than five residents are receiving care (IBC 310.4). The city adopted the 2021 editions of both, along with the 2021 International Fire Code, effective August 1, 2023 (city construction codes). Three points decide what the building and fire departments actually ask for, and the sixth resident is the one that changes the answer.

• The five-resident line: Five or fewer residents receiving care keeps the house inside the residential code as an R-3, or lets it comply with the IRC outright. At six it becomes a Group R-4 under the building code, alongside halfway houses and alcohol and drug centers (2021 IBC 308.2.3, 310.4 and 310.5).
• Certificate of occupancy: No building may be used or occupied until the building official issues one, and a change of occupancy classification triggers a new one (bulletin IBS-017). A house that was previously a care facility, or that has a bedroom nobody permitted, is the version of this that costs money ($350.00 change-of-use fee).
• The fire department’s scope: The 2021 International Fire Code applies with local amendments effective August 1, 2023 (adopting ordinance). The department publishes no routine inspection program for one- and two-family dwellings, but it does schedule foster and group inspections on request at (361) 826-3930 (fire prevention division).
• Which code book applies: Texas adopts the International Residential Code as the municipal residential code statewide and lets a city amend it after a public hearing (Local Government Code 214.212). Corpus Christi has moved to the 2021 edition and deleted the flood-resistant construction chapter in favor of its own flood hazard code (2021 international codes ordinance).

Alarms are where first-time operators fall short of the code and of the certification inspection at the same time. The requirements below apply to every dwelling in the city regardless of who lives in it, which is the point: none of this is a sober living rule, and all of it gets inspected.

Nobody will make a single-family house comply. The fire department publishes no routine inspection program for one- and two-family dwellings, so unless permitted work triggers a retrofit or someone requests a foster or group inspection at (361) 826-3930, the alarms and egress are the operator’s own discipline (fire prevention division). Do the occupancy math room by room before the certification inspection rather than after, because a bedroom that fails on square footage or egress is a bed that never existed in the pro forma.

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Sober House in Corpus Christi?

The Texas floor is $31,011 to $39,112 on the lease path and $86,954 to $112,744 on the purchase path, with renovation, code upgrades and insurance the lines that can only be quoted locally. Corpus Christi changes three inputs and leaves the rest alone: the lease anchor, the purchase anchor and the property tax rate. It adds one line the statewide model does not carry at all, which is coastal wind and hail coverage.

Two adjustments turn the statewide model into a Corpus Christi budget.

• Purchase path: The state model prices the purchase path at $86,954 to $112,744 on a 20 percent down payment. At the July 2026 Corpus Christi median close price of $299,700 that down payment is $59,940 (Texas Real Estate Research Center), which puts the estimated local range at roughly $90,100 to $99,700 once closing costs of 2 to 3 percent are added and the reserve is held. Windstorm coverage and the change-of-use certificate of occupancy are excluded from both.
• Lease path: Far less. The state model runs $31,011 to $39,112, and the local line that changes is the deposit: three months against the FY2027 four-bedroom fair market rent of $2,087 is $6,261 (HUD FY2027 fair market rents). Use $2,087 as the number to test a landlord’s quote against, and treat anything far above it as a premium you are paying for the address rather than the house.

There are no local offsets. Neither the city nor Nueces County runs a grant, a rebate or a startup fund for recovery housing, and HHSC contracts recovery residence services with only three entities statewide, none of them in the Coastal Bend (HHSC recovery residence program).

The money that does exist here is not startup money. A resident with a voucher pays rent, but the Corpus Christi Housing Authority waiting list was closed as of September 17, 2026 (Corpus Christi Housing Authority), and court and probation placements pay per resident after admission rather than before opening. Nothing in this market funds the purchase, the renovation or the first three months.

Is a Sober Living Home Profitable in Corpus Christi?

Yes, at private-pay rents, if the house fills. The Texas reference model runs a 14-bed home at $800 a bed, $8,109 in total monthly revenue against $4,029 in operating costs, a net operating income of $4,080 before owner’s labor, a 50 percent net margin and breakeven at 46 percent occupancy. Corpus Christi changes two inputs in that model and nothing else: the mortgage and the property tax.

That reading is statewide, and Corpus Christi sharpens both sides of it. On the upside, entry capital is lower here than in any large Texas metro, because the median close price is $299,700. On the downside, the property tax rate is high and the wind and hail premium is a line the statewide model never has to carry. The table restates the state model and scales only the two property lines.

The adjustment holds revenue, per-bed rent and every other operating expense exactly as the state model sets them, and changes only the mortgage and the tax. It is an estimate built from published medians, not a quote on a specific house. On those assumptions the estimated net operating income is about $4,203 a month at a 52 percent margin, with the mortgage saving of roughly $305 partly given back as $182 of extra property tax.

• Windstorm insurance: The mortgage falls by $305 a month here and the tax line rises by $182, so the property lines roughly cancel. Wind and hail is the line that actually moves: Nueces County sits inside the TWIA catastrophe area, where the average residential premium ran $2,877 in early 2026 on top of an ex-wind policy (TWIA media kit).
• The property tax rate, not the price: A cheaper house in a 2.209921 per $100 jurisdiction costs more in tax than a dearer house in a low-rate county (Nueces County tax rates). This is the input operators moving from another Texas metro get wrong most often.
• No public payer for a bed: Nothing local pays rent for a recovery housing bed. The state-funded door is the Region 11 outreach, screening, assessment and referral office in Edinburg (Tropical Texas Behavioral Health), and HHSC contracts recovery residence services with only three entities statewide, none of them in the Coastal Bend (HHSC recovery residence program). Model this house on private pay.
• Eleven Oxford Houses: Eighty-three peer-run beds with 20 vacancies already operate in the county at the lowest price point in the market (Oxford House vacancies directory). A $800 bed has to be visibly better than a free-standing democratic house, which is what the live-in house mentor and certification are for.

No real house matches a model, and finding out how far off yours is takes a few minutes.

How to Get Residents for a Sober Living Home in Corpus Christi

Public money is not what fills a house in Corpus Christi. Four doors matter, and only one of them carries state dollars.

• Region 11 outreach, screening, assessment and referral, (800) 813-1233: The single door for state-funded substance use services covering Nueces County, contracted to Tropical Texas Behavioral Health (HHSC OSAR directory). It screens, authorizes placement and refers onward, and it is based in Edinburg, roughly 150 miles away (Tropical Texas Behavioral Health).
• Nueces Center for Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, crisis line 888-767-4493: The local mental health authority, at 3733 S. Port Avenue, with an intake line at (361) 886-6970 (need help page). Its published services are crisis, adult and youth mental health and intellectual disability support, not substance use treatment, so the route to a bed runs through a case manager rather than a program (crisis intervention).
• The specialty courts and probation: Four registered specialty courts operate here (Office of Court Administration registry), and probation runs its own residential facility with a year of aftercare on a $2.5 million FY2026 line (community supervision funding letter). Aftercare is the phase where a sober living bed gets used, and the officer holding the caseload is the person who places it.
• Certification, as the price of being referable: No home in the county is TROHN-certified today (TROHN directory), while chapter 469 makes accreditation the state-recognized mark and ties funding eligibility to it (chapter 469). Nothing forces certification, and nothing makes a discharge planner choose an uncertified house over a certified one either.

Eighteen organizations follow, public agencies and the courts first, because in a county with no public payer for beds those are the desks that decide where someone goes tonight.

The fellowship is the other half of the pipeline. The Coastal Bend Intergroup Association runs a 24-hour line at (361) 992-8911 and lists 136 weekly meetings inside the city (AA meeting list), and the Coastal Bend area of Narcotics Anonymous keeps a helpline at (361) 992-2113 with 36 city meetings (Narcotics Anonymous). Neither refers formally, and neither will. Meeting secretaries and sponsors are still how a large share of residents find a house, which is a reason for the house mentor to be a known face in those rooms.

If you are reading this because you or someone close to you needs a bed rather than a business plan, start here.

Common Mistakes When Opening a Sober House in Corpus Christi

These are the errors that show up in Corpus Christi homes that struggle in year one. Five of the six happen before a single resident moves in, which is the good news: they are all avoidable at the desk.

• Signing on a house sized for six residents: Six rent-paying residents is not a bigger version of four. It moves the house out of the family definition and into Group Living, which has no row in the single-family use table (use table 4.3.2), and it moves the building from the residential code into a Group R-4 (IBC 310.5).
• Describing the home as treatment in the marketing: Health and Safety Code 464.002 reaches anyone who offers or purports to offer chemical dependency treatment (chapter 464). A website promising a program of therapy reclassifies the use to Social Service, which is permitted by special permit in two commercial districts and nowhere residential.
• Quoting the six-or-fewer rule as protection: Chapter 123 protects community homes run by a narrow list of operator types that provide habilitation services (chapter 123). A peer-supported LLC is not on that list, and operators who plan around the protection find that out during a complaint rather than before.
• Budgeting property tax off the purchase price alone: The combined rate inside the city is 2.209921 per $100 (Nueces County tax rates). A $299,700 house carries about $6,623 a year with no homestead exemption on a rental, which is $182 a month above the statewide model and enough to swallow a bed.
• Treating wind and hail as part of the homeowners policy: It is written separately through TWIA in this county, the property has to be certified to code by inspection, and flood coverage is required in the V zones (TWIA coverage and eligibility). An operator who budgets one insurance line for a coastal house is short by thousands.
• Waiting for a public referral pipeline that is not here: The screening office is 150 miles away, the voucher waiting list is closed, and no local program pays for a recovery housing bed. Homes that open expecting placements and get none spend the first quarter discovering it instead of filling beds.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Opening a Sober House in Corpus Christi

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Everything below appears somewhere on this page, and none of it is optional in this city. Work it in order, because the first three items decide what the rest cost.