In re G.T.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Appellant, G.T., a mildly retarded adult, seeks to compel the District of Columbia to provide him and his wife, T.B., who also is mentally retarded, with a supervised apartment under the “Mentally Retarded Citizens Constitutional Rights and Dignity Act of 1978,” D.C.Code §§ 6-1901 et seq. (1989) (hereafter “the Act”). The trial court denied appellant’s motion on the ground that, on the particular facts of this case, compelling admission would be inconsistent with the habilitative purposes of the Act. We affirm.

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Appellant has resided intermittently in residential…