B.C. agency tight-lipped over group home closures: Community Living B.C. has closed at least 19 homes this year
Vancouver Sun
By Lindsay Kines
November 13, 2010 

VICTORIA — The B.C. Crown agency that provides services to the developmentally disabled has closed at least 19 group homes across the province this year, provincial government documents show.

But Community Living B.C. refuses to say where those homes were or who operated them, citing privacy rules and contractual obligations.

The agency posted the numbers on a government website in a "for the record" response to mounting criticism of the group home closures by a coalition of advocacy and union organizations.

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