Relisha Tenau Rudd. Via MPD.

As part of city report on Relisha Rudd’s disappearance, three city agencies were tasked with creating a plan to develop smaller shelter options for D.C.’s homeless families, hundreds of whom currently live in a decaying hospital.

According to a spokesperson for Vincent Gray, the mayor received a draft provided by Deputy Mayor B.B. Otero by the September 30 deadline. However, it will not be made public until it has been reviewed. The spokesperson could not provide a timeline for the plan’s release.

Rudd was living at the D.C. General family homeless shelter when she disappeared, abducted by a janitor who was later found dead of an apparent suicide. The eight-year-old child is still missing.

“The review reaffirmed that large family shelters are no place to raise children,” stated finding No. 15 in the Rudd report. “The Mayor and the District Council are already on record collectively affirming the goal to close as a shelter for families who are homeless and to take aggressive and deliberate action to develop alternative housing options for families. [Rudd’s] disappearance has focused attention on the urgency of the need for action — in the short term to make the Shelter a safer place for children and families living there and in the longer term, to eliminate the need for its continued existence.”

One of the mandated recommendations from this finding was a plan “detailing the necessary steps with appropriate timelines for developing alternative smaller shelter options for homeless families.”

The report, conducted by the Deputy Mayors for Education and Health and Human Services, concluded that D.C. could not have prevented Rudd’s disappearance, a claim heavily criticized by Councilmember Jim Graham.

“We’ll never know,” Graham said of the report’s conclusion. “We only know that there were [D.C. General] staff members who did nothing when they should have something. And had they done something it might have been different. It is hypothesis, you’re right, but I’d like to think that sometimes we can help each other. Sometimes we can take actions that help each other.”