In our Residence Community, we offer deeply affordable private rooms, studios, and one, two and three-bedroom apartments for working individuals and families. Residents pay a monthly program fee which includes housing, all or most utilities, and personal support 
and assistance. For the safety of our residents in recovery, we require that all buildings in the Residence Community be free of alcohol and illegal drugs.
Residents are expected to earn enough from employment to pay for monthly program fee, food, transportation, clothing, childcare, and other basic needs.
Our Support Staff helps residents address critical issues, including employment, health care, education, budgeting, and child care.
If you have a job but can’t find housing you can afford, we would like to help you.
Criteria for applicants to the Residence Community include:
- Must have a housing barrier (example: homelessness, bad credit, evictions, etc)
- Must have employment
- Must meet income requirements (less than 80% Area Median Income + program fees cannot be more than 35% of your income)
- If in recovery, must have significant clean time and be working a program (NA, AA, Drug Court, IOP, etc)
Requirements to live at Open Doors Kalamazoo:
- Must meet with program manager a minimum of every six months to set goals in order to become financially independent and show progress at every appointment
- Must create a budget and set up a savings goal
- Must maintain employment
- Must provide identification
- Must be able to provide proof of income and job history
- Must submit annual tax filings showing income
If you meet the criteria for the resident community, please send an email to screening@odkzoo.com for more information. After you send an email to screening@odkzoo.com, you can expect a follow-up from Open Doors Kalamazoo within two business days.
Please note: we work off a waitlist so with any openings we will follow up based on when we received your application. We have an extremely limited number of 3 bedroom homes, which are all currently full, so at this time we have no available family housing.