Nevada’s most vulnerable mentally ill residents are living in taxpayer-funded homes with human waste, rodents, mildew and other filthy conditions, a state audit released Wednesday found. “When this report is made public, I hope you’re all as disgusted as I am. I wouldn’t put my dog in these conditions,” Assemblyman Jim Wheeler said. State lawmakers, who appeared surprised by the conditions uncovered in the report, couldn’t hide their anger at a Legislative Commission subcommittee meeting in Las Vegas. The Legislative Auditor’s Office looked at 37 “community-based living arrangement” homes where the state places mentally ill adults. The providers of the homes are paid $1,450 from state and federal funding for each person they house. Some homes housed six to seven patients at once, auditors said.
