A study found that board and care homes are essential to keeping low-income people with serious mental illnesses off the streets.
Hundreds of board and care homes for people with serious mental illness have closed in recent years across California, raising concerns that residents could become homeless.Operators are paid $44 a day for each resident with serious mental illness, versus about $191 to $391 a day per person with developmental disabilities — a discrepancy that advocates have said must be fixed if the lower-funded board and care homes are to survive.
It is far cheaper to house a formerly homeless person in a board and care — about $20,700 a year — than the more than $34,000 that L.A. County pays to serve each person without permanent shelter, the study found. Residents of board and care homes reported being fairly happy, according to the study. About 88% indicated that they felt “like they were part of a community,” with about 78% indicating that their facility “feels like a home.”
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