By Victor Schwartzman

In the seventies, many governments appeared to accept arguments that the institutions created to serve people with disabilities instead often served up a service that was inefficient and immoral. What governments really accepted was that they could use the politics of community living to save money, replacing expensive big institutions with cheaper small ones. (In some cases, people with mental health challenges ended up in dingy rooming houses, and had no supports.)

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