Casa Ruby, a D.C. shelter serving LGBTQ youth, was cited for numerous failures to pay rent and its own employees.
The closures mark the latest chapter in a tumultuous year for the nonprofit. Last fall, the D.C. Department of Human Services said it would not renew an $839,460 grant toto run a low-barrier shelter.
according to court records and more than 8,000 emails to and from DHS officials that The Post obtained through a public records request. “Ruby Corado is out of the country and we have not had contact with her,” Mortensen wrote to her colleagues at DHS on March 23, 2021. Corado, who is transgender, often said she was proud of the fact that she employed so many trans people. Nearly all of her employees were transgender, and many had overcome great hardship, Cordova said.
“They created a family in this immigrant house,” Cordova said. “That was their community. They are already fleeing from their countries because they have faced violence because they are part of the LGBTQ community.”In a Facebook Live video last October, when Corado announced that she was stepping down, she said she was appointing Alexis Blackmon to replace her as executive director. Blackmon left the position in February.
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