{"id":4244,"date":"2009-01-06T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2009-01-06T08:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T16:47:37","slug":"bressi-ranch-home-for-mentally-disabled-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"Bressi Ranch Home For Mentally Disabled Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/iszx88wawbqn4z.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/iszx88wawbqn4z.jpg','popup','width=330,height=220,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/iszx88wawbqn4z-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Iszx88Wawbqn4Z\" \/><\/a>Putting a group home for mentally disabled men in the middle of <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">Stepford<\/span> <strong>Bressi Ranch<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t seem like the best idea we&#8217;ve heard in a while. But that didn&#8217;t stop <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teriinc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TERI, Inc<\/a><\/strong>. of Oceanside (a non-profit that works with mentally disabled children and adults) from buying a $1 million home at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=map:+6205+Alverton+Drive,+carlsbad,+CA+92008&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=image\" target=\"_blank\">6205 Alverton Drive<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountytimes.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/05\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/za64fe541e28d17d288257536002300d2.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/6205-Alverton-Dr-Carlsbad-CA-92009\/69019369_zpid\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZIllow.com<\/a><\/strong> describes the house:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charming cottage style single story Canterbury model highly upgraded both inside and out. Resort style yard with salt water pool and spa, play area for children, plus additional side yard. Built In BBQ and dining area.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We would never suggest that six mentally disabled men don&#8217;t deserve a salt water pool, hot tub, and a built-in BBQ in their resort-style back yard, nor that anyone would notice six more mentally disabled men in Bressi Ranch. It just seems that TERI, Inc.&#8217;s could have done much more for their program if they&#8217;d been more efficient with their million dollars rather than spending it on an overpriced four-bedroom track home in one of Southern California&#8217;s premiere planned communities.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe TERI, Inc. is trying to make a point and what better place make it than in Bressi Ranch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountytimes.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/05\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/za64fe541e28d17d288257536002300d2.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting a group home for mentally disabled men in the middle of Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Stepford Bressi Ranch doesn&#8217;t seem like the best idea we&#8217;ve heard in a while. But that didn&#8217;t stop TERI, Inc. of Oceanside (a non-profit that works with mentally disabled children and adults) from buying a $1 million home at 6205 Alverton Drive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}