I live in Oxford House - Carl Westmoreland in Richmond. Oxford Houses are democratically self-governing and self-supporting under the Oxford House system of operations. Living in Oxford House gave me something I couldn't find on my own: people who understood exactly what I was going through and held me accountable every day. Running the house together, from paying bills to voting at meetings, taught me responsibility and showed me I could be trusted again. My recovery is stronger because I'm not doing it alone. I support rules that keep people safe, but rules that require staff or assume every home is a commercial business would keep Oxford Houses from operating in Virginia, even though research shows our model gets the best results. Please change those rules, and please clarify whether house members are considered the operator."