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When the Neighbors Complain: Correlates of Neighborhood Opposition to Sheltered Care Facilities.

Adult Resid Care J

January 1996

The first author serves as program director, Center for Self-Help Research, Berkeley California. The second author serves as Director, Social Welfare Research Group, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley and as an Editorial Board Member, Adult Residential Care Journal.

Neighborhood resistance to unwanted land uses is a much heralded but insufficiently investigated feature of recent decades. This paper investigates local opposition to sheltered care for a people with mental disabilities. Using data gathered in a 12 year follow-up of a probability sample of sheltered care facilities in California, the study looks at changes over time in local opposition and at correlates of local reaction.

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The present study investigated the daily hassles of a severely mentally ill population in sheltered care facilities in California. The results show that financial problems, loneliness, boredom, crime, accomplishments, verbal and written expression, and health were their most frequent concerns, reflecting the life-style of a low income, socially isolated, population whose disability renders an active, upwardly mobile life difficult. Age, gender, racial, and residential status differences in the most frequent and most severe hassles were found with age differences being the most pronounced.

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