“We know that having access to that shelter would be a life saving resource for people in the neighborhood,” one West End resident says.

The plaintiff, West End Community Association, alleges that D.C. “violated legal requirements intended to protect the public” in its handling of the purchase.

Ward 2 is finally set to receive its own iteration of a family homeless shelter.

Casa Ruby founder Ruby Corado is reportedly the only person who controls the nonprofit’s bank accounts, but former staff and local officials have not been able to reach her.

Roughly 18% of D.C.’s adults experiencing homelessness but who are unsheltered are LGBTQ+, officials said at the shelter’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.

DHS says the city doesn’t currently have enough housing to place the more than 600 people living in PEP-V hotels, leaving their futures uncertain.

The completion of the city’s seven new family shelters was a project five years in the making, delayed in some cases by neighborhood opposition.

The Days Inn is the last remaining motel the District has been using as an emergency shelter.

The city is now testing the water at the 801 East Men’s Shelter.

“Hotel rooms are not an ideal way to provide an emergency shelter, but just deciding that it’s not ideal does not mean it’s not the right choice when the alternative is that people won’t get help,” says DHS Director Laura Zeilinger.