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[quote=Anonymous]Here is Bowser from 2010, blocking DC's DHS from using the site, and amazingly [i]pushing to expand DC General[/i] as her alternative approach.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101302484.html

[quote]At a hearing last week, DHS Director Clarence H. Carter said that the agency searched for an alternative location to shelter families and that [u]the best facility was at 1125 Spring Rd. NW, a former Hebrew Home for the Aged[/u] and more recently a mental health center. ... [u]But the Spring Road building has since been removed from consideration[/u], Carter said during the hearing. Council member [u]Muriel Bowser[/u] (D-Ward 4) said that [u]her community has an "inordinate amount of group homes"[/u] and that Spring Road has two homeless shelters: a men's transitional shelter and an 88-room family shelter. ... [u]She agreed that more shelter space is needed and suggested that other options, namely expanding D.C. General, be reevaluated[/u]. "This is a very tight, dense residential neighborhood," she said of the Spring Road community. In contrast, the D.C. General shelter is on "a wide-open campus, a campus that, given the resources could accommodate these people."[/quote]

The plot grows murkier.[/quote]

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