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How can I start a group home for adults or elderly and get paid through government?
These are great questions to ask. These days, millions of people need of quality housing but simply do not have the income to afford a place to live. With average rents at apartments of $1,109.73 in the second quarter of 2013, it is no wonder adults, and the elderly are looking for cheaper alternatives. Often, group homes for the elderly are the best options.

Homes like these often come with shared rooms, essentially giving two people the ability to live in a room together and inside a home with a common kitchen. In essence, they are roommates! Because this type of housing is in such high demand, many entrepreneurs and real estate investors are starting up group homes for adults and the elderly to make additional income. And in many cases, not just a little income. Often, the income potential can be astounding.

For specialized housing, an example being group homes for the developmentally disabled, owners such as the Levy brothers in New York each paid themselves over $1,000,000 per year. That equates to over $83,333 per month per person! And this was just the salary. Each brother had their company pay for luxury automobiles and tuition for their children according to the New York Times. With houses in the Hamptons, Sutton Place and Palm Beach Gardens; neither brother is hurting running group homes and special needs housing. And how do they do it? They run a Medicaid-financed organization serving the developmentally disabled according to the New York Times.

But these two brothers have also been doing this for quite some time. Let’s assume you are new to the industry or simply just looking for a way to make some additional money, provide an excellent service for others and quit your job. One of the questions you may ask is, “how do I collect rent” from the people I provide housing for? Do I get got to a tenant or does I always get paid through government?”

Options to Get Paid Through Government
Private Pay – The parents, relatives or the individual themselves pays for the monthly group home rent
Subsidized – SRO housing (HUD)
SSI – Supplemental Security Income payments are sent to the client via direct deposit onto their credit card or a physical check is sent out. Your client then pays the group home rent with this money
SSDI – Social security disability income is paid to your client. Your client then pays you directly
Access To Recovery Voucher – ACT vouchers can provide rental income for your recovery home, group home, elderly group home etc.
HHS – The United States Health and Human Services office has individual state offices throughout your neighborhood. They will pay for housing and related services so that your clients can pay you. The check comes directly from the HHS office.
Grants and many other locations – There are so many places whereby you are the owner of the group home can receive rent and obtain money for providing your services.

Stop Worrying About Collections
When it comes to running a group home for the elderly or any special needs population the most important thing to realize is that a small percentage of people will not have their rent money. However, the great thing about operating group homes for disadvantaged populations is not having to worry about collections! The money just shows up in your account because you can get paid through government.

How do you do this? Well, the most important thing to do is obtain the client. Once you have the client, his or her social worker, case worker or other care-taker will provide you with all the documentation you need to obtain the rent money that you charge for providing a quality and much needed service.

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(CNN)On June 5, Breonna Taylor would have been 27 years old. But she was killed two months ago when police broke down the door to her apartment in an attempted drug sting, and shot her eight times.

A lot has happened since that day, and Taylor’s life and death have become folded into the larger worldwide outcry against police violence that exploded after the death of George Floyd in late May. Some worry the young black EMT, who was described as "full of life" and "a best friend to so many," is being forgotten.

Here’s where her case stands.

Legal: A wrongful death lawsuit, an FBI investigation, but no charges

Taylor’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit two months after her killing, claiming charges of battery, wrongful death, excessive force, negligence and gross negligence. The no-knock warrant issued by police included Taylor’s house because, according to a police affidavit for a search warrant for the raid, which was obtained by CNN affiliate WAVE, authorities suspected a man involved in a drug ring was receiving packages of drugs at her home.

On May 21, the FBI’s Louisville office announced they were opening an investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death.

Since these legal announcements, there has been little movement in Taylor’s case. The three officers involved in her shooting are still on administrative leave, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. But they have not been charged with any crimes.

Institutional: Changes to police department, exit of chief, outside review
On May 21, the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department announced it would require all sworn officers to wear body cameras. The LMPD also said it would change how the department carries out search warrants in response to Taylor’s death. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said the developments were the first steps the city would take toward improving police accountability

The same day, the LMPD’s Police Chief Steve Conrad announced he would be retiring at the end of June.

However, Conrad was removed from his post on June 1 after it was discovered the officers present at the shooting death of a black man named David McAtee during a Louisville protest did not have their body cams turned on.

On June 3, Fischer announced the city of Louisville would be "issuing a request for proposal for a comprehensive, top-to-bottom review" of the LMPD, to be conducted by an external firm. The request for proposal can be viewed here.

Social: Protests and current calls for justice

Taylor’s name has been a fixture in the recent protests spurred by the slaying of George Floyd , and some of the demonstrations have been specifically in her memory. During a protest in Louisville on May 26th featuring Taylor’s friends and family, demonstrators stood outside Mayor Greg Fischer’s house and demanded the arrest of the officers involved in her killing.

This demand has been echoed and amplified online. A Change.org petition calling for justice in Taylor’s death has been promoted by influential voices like singer Janelle Monae and Bernice King, and currently holds more than 3.5 million signatures.

Writer Cate Young has also called for several action items to be carried out on Taylor’s birthday, under the name #BirthdayForBreonna. They include signing the above petition, donating to legal aid funds or the GoFundMe campaign for Taylor’s family, and sending birthday cards to Kentucky’s Attorney General demanding charges in the case.

Finally, people are being encouraged to say Taylor’s name loudly and often; in the streets and online, so that in the deafening wave of dissent crashing over the country, her story is not washed away.

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The nature and uses of data collected via devices and its relation to privacy have been a focus of mine, and privacy has evolved in the past decade. The current COVID-19 crisis is a perfect example of our need to balance research, information and personal protection. Our current regulatory environment stifles innovation and does not truly protect the individual. It’s a lose-lose proposition. –

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The Transformer neural network architecture has revolutionized natural language processing capabilities (e.g., BERT from Google and GPT-2 from OpenAI). Since 2017, Transformer networks have dramatically advanced performance on tasks ranging from speech recognition to answering questions. This technology has helped lower barriers to activities like personalized tutoring and AI-powered customer support. –

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Hold officers accountable who use excessive force. But there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias.
By Heather Mac Donald
June 2, 2020 1:44 pm ET

A demonstrator kneels before a police line in Washington, May 31.
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George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is “tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal.’ ” Mr. Obama called on the police and the public to create a “new normal,” in which bigotry no longer “infects our institutions and our hearts.”

Joe Biden released a video the same day in which he asserted that all African-Americans fear for their safety from “bad police” and black children must be instructed to tolerate police abuse just so they can “make it home.” That echoed a claim Mr. Obama made after the ambush murder of five Dallas officers in July 2016. During their memorial service, the president said African-American parents were right to fear that their children may be killed by police officers whenever they go outside.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz denounced the “stain . . . of fundamental, institutional racism” on law enforcement during a Friday press conference. He claimed blacks were right to dismiss promises of police reform as empty verbiage.

This charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and remains so today. However sickening the video of Floyd’s arrest, it isn’t representative of the 375 million annual contacts that police officers have with civilians. A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions.

In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.

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The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.

On Memorial Day weekend in Chicago alone, 10 African-Americans were killed in drive-by shootings. Such routine violence has continued—a 72-year-old Chicago man shot in the face on May 29 by a gunman who fired about a dozen shots into a residence; two 19-year-old women on the South Side shot to death as they sat in a parked car a few hours earlier; a 16-year-old boy fatally stabbed with his own knife that same day. This past weekend, 80 Chicagoans were shot in drive-by shootings, 21 fatally, the victims overwhelmingly black. Police shootings are not the reason that blacks die of homicide at eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined; criminal violence is.

The latest in a series of studies undercutting the claim of systemic police bias was published in August 2019 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police officer. There is “no significant evidence of antiblack disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police,” they concluded.

A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects. Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. also found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings. Any evidence to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian behavior before and during interactions with police.

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The false narrative of systemic police bias resulted in targeted killings of officers during the Obama presidency. The pattern may be repeating itself. Officers are being assaulted and shot at while they try to arrest gun suspects or respond to the growing riots. Police precincts and courthouses have been destroyed with impunity, which will encourage more civilization-destroying violence. If the Ferguson effect of officers backing off law enforcement in minority neighborhoods is reborn as the Minneapolis effect, the thousands of law-abiding African-Americans who depend on the police for basic safety will once again be the victims.

The Minneapolis officers who arrested George Floyd must be held accountable for their excessive use of force and callous indifference to his distress. Police training needs to double down on de-escalation tactics. But Floyd’s death should not undermine the legitimacy of American law enforcement, without which we will continue on a path toward chaos.

Ms. Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of “The War on Cops,” (Encounter Books, 2016).

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