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001 Forward Living · Los Angeles · Opening January 2027

Most sober livings are theatre.
Forward Living is your launchpad.

Your own room. Your own bathroom. Nine housemates chosen as carefully as you were. Six months of structure built around the 12 steps, and a real life waiting on the other side.

Why Forward Living
Private bedrooms  +  Private bathrooms  +  12-step centered  +  Curated housemates  +  Real accountability  +  A 6-month launch plan  +   Private bedrooms  +  Private bathrooms  +  12-step centered  +  Curated housemates  +  Real accountability  +  A 6-month launch plan  +  
002 Why we exist

Sobriety is found in the rooms of 12-step programs. The brochure with the empty chairs and the stock photo sunrise is a sales pitch, not a path.

The Forward Living promise

We built Forward Living to cut through the noise of an industry that too often sells comfort instead of change. Accountability, structure, a clean dignified place to do the work, surrounded by housemates who are doing it alongside you. Simple to say. Genuinely hard to find.

✕  What you won't find here

  • ✕ Stock photos of strangers, candles, and kites
  • ✕ Overcrowded rooms packed to fill beds
  • ✕ Indefinite stays designed to keep you stuck
  • ✕ Anonymous intake with no one accountable
  • ✕ Promises of recovery without the actual work

✓  What we actually deliver

  • ✓ Your own private bedroom & bathroom
  • ✓ Carefully curated, committed housemates
  • ✓ Daily structure and real accountability
  • ✓ A program centered on the 12 steps
  • ✓ A six-month plan to launch you into life
Who We Are Forward Living

We've been where you are.
We built this because nothing like it existed.

We're not clinicians. We're not counselors. We don't have a billing department or a bed-count quota. We're people who got sober dead broke, out of options, no runway left, and rebuilt materially successful professional lives from scratch. It took structure, accountability, a real 12-step program, and an environment that demanded something every single day. About six months. We built Forward Living because that environment was nearly impossible to find. Most of what calls itself sober living is designed around everything except your actual outcome.

Who We Are Not
01

We are not body brokers.

A body broker recruits people in crisis and gets paid a kickback to drop them somewhere. The check comes first. Whether it's a good fit is an afterthought, if it comes up at all. It's illegal. It's common. It's why people end up in the wrong place at the worst moment of their lives. We have no referral arrangements, no placement fees, no financial relationship with any treatment center. We take residents who are right for this house. That's the only criteria.

02

We are not tied to an IOP.

Some sober livings are owned by or financially connected to intensive outpatient programs. The conflict is simple: the longer you stay in expensive treatment, the more everyone gets paid. Your insurance gets billed on two ends. Whether that treatment is actually working for you becomes secondary to whether it's still billable. We are independently owned and operated. No IOP affiliation. No financial incentive to keep you in anything other than your own sobriety.

03

We're not going to hand you a mop and tell you it's part of your recovery.

We're not going to pack 18 strangers into a house, skip the cleaning crew to save a few hundred dollars, and dress it up as a lesson in responsibility. We keep the house small and curated. We keep it clean. Showing up to your first job interview from a house that runs like a flophouse sets you back. That's the opposite of what we're here to do.

What We Actually Are

Forward Living is a structured sober living home. Private room, real accountability, a house with actual standards, and a six-month framework designed to put you back into the world employed, housed on your own, standing up. We are not your therapist. We are not your sponsor. We are the environment where the work you do with your sponsor actually has a chance to stick.

"Six months. Real life on the other side. That promise means something to us because we are the people who lived it."

The Founders Forward Living Group

Built by people who know this from both sides.

Real estate and recovery. Two worlds that rarely talk to each other. Forward Living is what happens when they do.

Shane Moses
Co-Founder
Shane Moses
CEO, Forward Living Group

Shane built his career inside commercial real estate advising on behavioral healthcare assets. That put him in the room for deal after deal involving sober living operators, and what he saw was consistent: operators sourced their properties the same way every time. They took whatever they could get. Available units in declining buildings. Converted single-family homes never designed for the number of people being moved through them. Real estate first, recovery environment second, if at all.

What he saw was an industry treating housing as a commodity rather than a catalyst. He understood that the physical environment is not peripheral to the work. It is part of the foundation. The house you come home to every night, the kitchen you share, the room you close the door on at the end of the day, those things either support your recovery or quietly undermine it. A rickety house jammed with people doesn't give anyone room to become something different.

Forward Living started with that premise: that a purposefully built, thoughtfully curated space is itself part of the program.

003 The Sober Living Trap

The truth nobody in the industry says out loud.

Hear it from the person who built this place. Then decide for yourself.

Walk the house
/ 01

Most homes are overcrowded by design

Beds are revenue. When every bunk is full, the house stops being a place to heal and starts being a place to survive. We cap our beds and give everyone their own room.

/ 02

Indefinite stays keep people stuck

Comfort without a clock is a holding pattern. Forward Living is a six-month arc with a clear finish line: real life on the other side.

/ 03

Vibes don't keep anyone sober

Sobriety is built in the rooms, with a sponsor, doing the steps. We built the whole house around that work, not around how it photographs.

004 The House

These are real photos of the real home.

Freshly renovated in Los Angeles. Private rooms, full kitchen, bright common spaces. Every image you see is the actual house you'd move into.

Open-plan living and diningLiving & Dining
Light-filled common roomCommon Room
Private bedroom with deskPrivate Bedroom
Private bedroomPrivate Bedroom
Full kitchenFull Kitchen
Lounge areaLounge
Bedroom with natural lightPrivate Bedroom
Private bathroomPrivate Bath
Seating and decorCommon Space
Bathroom vanityPrivate Bath
No stock images were used anywhere on this site
005 The Six-Month Arc

Built to launch you. Six months, a finish line, and a life waiting.

Your stay has a finish line. Six months of structure, a clear progression, and a plan for what comes next.

Months 1–2
Ground

Stabilize & commit

Settle into structure, find a home group and a sponsor, start the steps, and rebuild a daily rhythm: sleep, accountability, meetings, chores.

Months 3–4
Build

Work & responsibility

Employment, school, or volunteer work. Money management, relationships repaired, real responsibility added week over week.

Months 5–6
Launch

Independence & exit

A concrete aftercare and housing plan, savings in place, and a sober support network that travels with you out the door.

The Location USC · Exposition Park · Los Angeles

Exposition Park. Gateway to the Westside.

Forward Living is in Exposition Park. Safe, working-class, adjacent to USC, and right on the Metro Expo Line. Via Washington and Jefferson, Culver City is ten minutes away. From there the whole city opens up.

Early sobriety doesn't need a manicured zip code. It needs a neighborhood where you can ride the train to a meeting, walk to a job, and start building an actual life. Near the beach you'd pay $8,000 a month for the same private room and the same 12 steps. Here the rent is $1,950 a month, and Medi-Cal may cover it entirely.

Metro Expo Line · direct access

Employment within reach

The USC corridor has one of the densest concentrations of entry-level and mid-level work in LA. Retail, restaurants, university administration, Keck Hospital, office jobs along Figueroa and into Culver City. Part of months three and four is getting to work. This neighborhood makes that possible from day one.

Monthly rate · All communities
Housing rent
$1,950
per month
Covered by Medi-Cal
Transitional Rent
if eligible
Program fees
$600
per month
Paid by resident.
Covers programming,
oversight & cleaning
On Medi-Cal?

Eligible residents may pay as little as $600/month out of pocket. Medi-Cal Transitional Rent covers the housing cost. We help you check eligibility and start the request.

  • ✓ Private bedroom & private bathroom
  • ✓ Full kitchen & furnished common spaces
  • ✓ All utilities included
  • ✓ Weekly professional cleaning
  • ✓ Accountability structure & daily oversight
  • ✓ Six-month program with a finish line

Comparable sober living near the beach runs $6,000–$8,000/month. Same private room. Same structure. Same 12 steps. You're paying for the zip code, and the zip code doesn't keep anyone sober.

10 beds per community · 30 total across the building

The Building One building. Three communities.

An entire building. Purpose-built for this.

We own the whole building. Three self-contained communities, each with their own floor, their own kitchen, their own common spaces. No cross-access between floors. Same standards, same oversight, same price across all three.

10
Women's Community

Women's
Community

Ten curated residents. Their own common spaces, their own kitchen. Fully self-contained.

10
Men's Community A

Men's
Community A

Ten residents. Private rooms, private bathrooms, dedicated common areas. No crossover between floors.

10
Men's Community B

Men's
Community B

Same structure, same standards, same price. A separate community under the same roof.

006 Curated, on purpose

We choose our residents carefully.

The single biggest factor in whether sober living works is who's in the house with you. We personally review every applicant so the people around you are as committed as you are. It protects your sobriety, the culture of the home, and your odds of making it.

100%
of applicants reviewed by a human
1:1
private room, never a bunk
6 mo
structured stay with a finish line

Who thrives at Forward Living

  • ✓ You're done with detox/treatment and ready for structured independence
  • ✓ You're willing to work a 12-step program with a sponsor
  • ✓ You'll follow house rules: testing, curfew, meetings, chores
  • ✓ You want a six-month launch with a real finish line
  • ✓ You're ready to be accountable to a house that's rooting for you
◈ California · CalAIM

You may not have to pay rent out of pocket.

As of January 1, 2026, California's Medi-Cal program offers Transitional Rent: up to six months of rental assistance for eligible members. That lines up almost exactly with a Forward Living stay. We help you find out if you qualify and start the request.

  • 01 Up to 6 months of transitional rent assistance
  • 02 For active Medi-Cal members who are homeless or at risk
  • 03 Substance use / mental health treatment counts as a qualifying clinical factor
  • 04 For people transitioning from treatment, institutions, incarceration, foster care, or interim housing

Transitional Rent is a Medi-Cal benefit administered by your managed care plan and requires prior authorization through a contracted provider/housing navigator. Forward Living does not determine eligibility or pay this benefit. We help you check whether you may qualify and connect you to the request process. Final eligibility and approval rest with your Medi-Cal plan. The benefit is narrowly defined; we'll always explain it to you honestly.

Think you may qualify?

Tell us in your application. Include your Medi-Cal plan and your case manager's information and we will handle the rest from there.

01 You fill out the application and include your plan, your Medi-Cal ID, and your case manager's contact
02 We review your information and reach out within 48 hours
03 If you qualify, we work with you and your case manager to file the prior authorization
04 Approval means your rent is covered. You focus on the work, not the bill
Apply Forward Living Group

Start your application.

Every application is reviewed personally, usually within 48 hours. The more you tell us, the better we can place you and the faster we can file for Transitional Rent if you qualify.

What happens next

This isn't a form into the void. A real person reads it.

01
You applyTell us your story and your situation.
02
We call youA short, honest conversation. We're figuring out fit, and so are you.
03
We sort out rentSelf-pay, family, or Medi-Cal Transitional Rent. We help figure it out.
04
You move inInto your own room, with a plan and a finish line.

Progress saved. Picking up where you left off. Clear
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Application received.

Thank you for trusting us with your story. A real person will review it and reach out, usually within 48 hours.

What happens next
01We review your application personally
02We call you within 48 hours for a short conversation
03If it's a fit, we work out the details and get you placed

If it's urgent, call us directly at (626) 506-2596