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" are:
While Legacy House does practice Fair Housing, to promote a recovery-focused environment all homes are single gendered.
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