919 Housing for People with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities Lital Barlev Abstract Over the last decades, there have been changes across the world in various aspects of the lives of people with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities (IDD), public attitudes towards them, and policies regarding them. Recognition of the rights to which they are entitled is becoming established, and laws have been enacted to guarantee their right to be part of the community, like people without disabilities (Nye-Lengerman & Hewitt, 2019). These changes are also reflected in the housing arrangements offered to people with IDD. In the United States and Western Europe, a policy of deinstitutionalization has prevailed in recent decades, i.e., the relocation of people with IDD from residential institutions to community living, and the development of an array of community housing arrangements for them (Rimmerman, 2017). The deinstitutionalization trend in Europe and the United States has also affected Israel. In the last twenty years, considerable steps have been taken in Israel to promote and implement the idea of integrating people with IDD in the community (Ziv, 2004; Hovav and Aminadav, 2006; Aminadav and Nissim, 2015). However, in Israel, the process Chapter on page 651
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