By defining group homes as "a community-based home having eight or fewer residents that provides 24- hour supervision by persons in direct care positions who do not live in the home," the ammendments effectively segregate people with intellectual disabilatities into separate housing.  This does not meet the DOJ's intent of "the goals of community integration, self-determination, and quality services" to which VA assented in settlement agreement it is now trying to comply with.

The definition also works against a common goal of improved quality and risk management systems.  Each of us naturally has more interest in the quality and risk management of our own home, than one of others.  Direct care professionals who live in a group home are more likely to be invested in creating and safeguarding its environment than those who clock in and clock out.