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ACL also distributes funding to over 400 Centers for Independent Living across the country that help people with disabilities get jobs through employment training and similar programs.

The waitlist for independent living units is generally a week to six months.

On the morning of Jan. 8, Jean Bruce Poole woke up in her Altadena independent living apartment at the MonteCedro retirement home, and like any other day, she got dressed and ate her breakfast.

“However, two independent living residents were not encountered and did not make it to the buses.”

According to the SHRC, urgent action and new laws are needed in Scotland to protect the right to independent living because this is being breached daily.