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Barry Delays Bill After Bickering Highlights Council Divide
"Today is my two-week anniversary of being in my apartment. . . . I am concerned about my brothers," Milton Dorsey said during the meeting.
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"A lot of guys have jobs downtown, services downtown, and now they are just being shipped out there where there is nothing," Tucker said.
"They are trying to hide the homeless. Out of sight, out of mind," homeless activist Eric Sheptock said at the Wilson Building.
Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), who chairs the council's Human Services Committee, said he is trying to get information from the city about the homeless men who have been given apartments. "The whole point of the addresses is to find out how they are doing," he said.
The council had previously passed legislation asking the Fenty administration for more details about the social services support the men are receiving in their apartments.
Milton T. Dorsey III was also at the meeting. Dorsey, another Army veteran and gospel recording producer, had been homeless for about five years.
"Today is my two-week anniversary of being in my apartment," said Dorsey, who brought his apartment lease papers with him. "Even though I have been helped, I am concerned about my brothers."
In other business at yesterday's meeting, council members withdrew or tabled several other pieces of legislation for more information or technical reasons. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5) said he decided to pull a bill involving the redevelopment of a warehouse district between New York and Florida avenues NE because Gallaudet University is also working on a plan for nearby property.
"Gallaudet wanted to have a little more latitude," Thomas said.
However, Wells was concerned that residents in his ward, just across the street, did not have input.
Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) said he thought the legislation was trying to bypass an earlier measure that required buy-in from 51 percent of business owners in the warehouse district.
