Report: Inspectors neglected D.C.'s largest homeless shelter

A new D.C. inspector general’s report has found the city office tasked with monitoring its 65 homeless shelters failed for three years in a row to conduct required-by-law site visits at the District’s largest shelter, part of a “lack of oversight” investigators say might have put the city financially at risk.

The report, released publicly by the Office of the Inspector General this week, also warns that D.C.’s Shelter Monitoring and Quality Assurance is understaffed and lacks the proper policies and procedures to achieve its goals of helping the city’s homeless get back on their feet.