EXHIBIT 23.1


                        CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS


The Board of Directors and Shareholders
Assisted Living Concepts, Inc.


     We consent to incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement Form
S-8 for the Amended and Restated 1994 Stock Option Plan and the Non-Executive 
Employee Equity Participation Plan dated July 10, 1998 of Assisted Living 
Concepts, Inc. and subsidiaries of our report dated February 13, 1998, which 
report appears in the December 31, 1997 Annual Report on Form 10-K of Assisted 
Living Concepts, Inc. and subsidiaries.


                                       KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP

Portland, Oregon
July 10, 1998