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Focuses on the history of Ocean House, an adult home for New York City's poor and mentally ill. Fraud committed by its operator eight years ago; Effort of the Pataki administration to reform the adult home system; Background on the current home operator, Meyer Weber, which is being investigated by Connecticut officials, according to the state attorney general, Richard Blumenthal; Background on the New York adult home system; Indication that Weber was only granted a temporary license at Ocean House, pending his application for a permanent one; Problems at Weber's Albany home, Pearl of Wisdom.

Reports that operators of a state-funded Brooklyn home for the mentally disabled in New York City signed a contract to sell it before ordering its residents to leave as of July 2000. Terms of the contract; Impact of the order to its residents.

Deals with mildly retarded adults moving into the home managed by the YAI/National Institute for People With Disabilities at Glebe Avenue in New York City, New York. Reasons the first proposed site of YAI was opposed by its community; Cost of keeping the resident in the home per year; Benefits of the home to elderly parents of the mildly retarded adults.

Reports on the residential services of the mentally retarded in New York. Remarks of Ellen Rosman of Association for the Help of Retarded Children about the demand for housing for mentally disabled and retarded adults; Details on the endorsed plan of the Community Board 7 to create a group home in Flushing; Percentage of housing for the mentally handicapped in Queens, New York.

Informs about the protest of Brian Cavanagh and his neighbors regarding the opening of a Cedar Grove group home for the mentally retarded in Flushing, Queens. Reasons for the same.

Reports that 26 mentally retarded adults are residing in a homeless shelter at the Westchester County Airport in Westchester, New York. Citing the shortage of beds in group homes or in supervised apartments as the main cause of their shelter living; Reaction of county officials to the disclosure; Comments from Deborah Sturm Rausch, a spokeswoman for the State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Retardation.