It’s been four months since Wanda Gore has been able to use her elevator.
The one closest to her second-floor apartment in The Gale Eckington, a hulking housing complex on Q Street in Northeast D.C., has been shuttered since early February. To get outside, the 55-year-old Gore, who is blind and uses a wheelchair, has to roll down three long corridors to reach an elevator on the far side of her building.
“If it’s a fire … if something was to happen to me, I can’t even get downstairs,” said Gore, who has lived at The Gale for two years.