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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, discovered over 160 largely unregulated recovery homes operating within the city.

The city lobbied for a 2024 state law change, allowing municipalities to enforce state certification for recovery homes.

After hiring a compliance officer, Elizabethtown reduced its number of recovery homes and improved oversight.

Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory knew next to nothing about recovery homes when calls started pouring in from neighbors in 2023.

Months later, he found there were more than 160 operating within the city of just under 33,000 people, located about 45 miles south of Louisville.

“You take an 850- to 1,000-square-foot house, and they were putting six, seven, eight people in there, charging them $500, $600 a piece, but they weren't getti

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