http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/humane-housing-for-the-mentally-ill.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Human housing for the Mentally Ill:
-in the 1990s NY put people (who had left pyschiatric hospitals) into prison-style nursing homes.
-NY is now trying to give them housing together as a community and live independently as well
-People with mental illnesses advocates charged the state saying that the state violated federal law and did not give the people the treatment and skills they needed to live independently
-NY will have the people who cannot be taken care of in the community be sent to nursing homes. The state is also giving the people 200 units of housing for living.
