Just to clear things up, we turn to the Times!

A New York Times article reports about Oxford Houses:

"There are at least 40 sober houses in Connecticut (an exact count is impossible because many exist in obscurity). Some are sponsored by religious institutions, some are independent, but more than half are affiliated with Oxford House Inc., a national organization that promotes recovery through mutual support among residents of sober houses and abstention from the temptations that got them in trouble in the first place, hence the preference for single family houses outside of urban areas.

Each unsupervised house is democratically run and self-supporting, with residents paying rent and doing all maintenance on their homes. "

I've included the link in my sidebar. There is also a link to Oxfordhouse.org I've somehow neglected to include in all this time, since I converted "Often And Then Again" into a Recovery site... (yikes, you shoulda seen it before!)