States should resist bad old days of warehousing people with disabilities

For three years, Stanley has lived in her own apartment on Chicago's South Side. She cooks her own meals, sees her family regularly and manages her bipolar disorder with the kind of stability that once felt impossible. Previously, her only option besides living on the street was a nursing home — a place she describes not as somewhere to heal, but somewhere to survive. It was a place that didn't feel safe, and where Stanley, whose last name is being withheld to protect her privacy, felt like the…