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grams to ensure that poor fami- lies and especially poor children are properly cared for and prop- erly sheltered.” For the city’s homeless, Gray’s
tenure was a mixed bag, advo- cates say. Gray ended the practice of housing homeless families in filthy “welfare hotels” and part- nered with the federal govern- ment to turn over operations to private providers. But in his first two years, he also eliminated about 500 shelter
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beds and reduced spending by at least $10 million. His actions prompted bitter protests largely aimedat themayor,whowasthen known as Sharon Pratt Dixon. Twomenrappelled down the side of the J.W. Marriott Hotel to un- furl a banner across the street from city hall: “Dixon’s Shovel Will Bury theHomeless.” Stephen Cleghorn, a former
advocate for the homeless, first encountered Gray as DHS direc- tor whenCleghorn and a group of homeless men refused to leave a trailer that was part of a Foggy
Bottom shelter that Gray was determined to close. A year later, Cleghorn wrote a harsh critique of the mayor and Gray when the administration refused federal money to shelter families, a deci- sion Gray said was necessary to avoid creating an unsustainable entitlement to shelter. Cleghorn also served on Pratt’s homelessness task force, and he said “not a single recommenda- tion was taken seriously.” Years later, Cleghorn said he
has a different view of Gray. “He was in the lead, but his hands
were tied to a certain extent by the mayor at whose pleasure he served,” saidCleghorn,nowagoat farmer in Pennsylvania. When Gray took the DHS job,
child welfare wasn’t his specialty. But it quickly became a priority.A few months into the new admin- istration, a federal judge in a class-action suit against the Dis- trict found that the city’s failure to find homes for more than 2,000 children foster care violat- ed the Constitution. The judge called the situation a “travesty.” In his opinion, in a case known
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asLaShawn, U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan lamented “a lost generation of children whose tragic plight is being repeated every day.” But for a new administration
that had pledged to repair the city’s safety net, the judge’s blis- tering critique seemed like an opportunity, too. Marcia Robin- son Lowry, who has been the lead attorney for the plaintiffs since the case began, said Gray’s atti- tude was remarkably supportive. “His goal was to come up with an agreement that would give us
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on child welfare trailed off, and in 1994, shortly before Gray’s tenure atDHSended, the judge installed a team of outside administrators to assist the agency. Less than a year later, again acting at the urging of the plaintiffs, Hogan appointed a general receiver to run the agency. If foster care was an early
priority for Gray, the needs of people with developmental dis- abilities were an enduring pas- sion. As executive director at the ARC, Gray had helped lead the charge to close Forest Haven, a decrepit institution and the tar- get of a class-action lawsuit. As head of DHS, he not only presided over the closing of For- est Haven in 1991, but he could claim tobethemanwhomadethe District the second jurisdiction in the country to end large-scale institutionalization of the devel- opmentally disabled. But the District, which had
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has criticized Gray’s efforts to fight HIV/AIDS at a time when the diseasewasravaging the city’s gay community. Fenty tells voters that Gray and Pratt failed to de- vote enough resources and that it “took twoyears” to appoint some- one to the top AIDS job. In fact, Pratt appointed Caitlin
Ryan, a nationally known health- care researcher, six months after taking office. Gray elevated what was the Office of AIDS Activities into a broader agency and won the “public administrator of the year” award from the Whitman- Walker clinic, which was on the front lines of fighting the disease. But when Ryan took over, she
had “no secretary, no contracts officer, no budget officer, no epi- demiologist, no fax line, no com- puter,” according to aPost story at the time. D.C. Council member Jim Gra-
ham (D-Ward 1), who headed Whitman-Walker at the time, said Gray did a good job “in the con- text of what he had.” But he also recalled the struggle to get paid by the city in 1992. When the government fell $1 million be- hind on what it owed the clinic, Graham said he met repeatedly with Gray, who did not control the purse strings. “It was like pulling wisdom
teeth to get that money,” said Graham, generally an ally of Fen- ty. “We went to Gray, and he saw us, and he did his best, but little beyond that.”
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