UPDATE - 2:50 PM, December 8, 2025: Residents have been allowed to return to their units. The story below has been updated to include Arrive Wheaton's response regarding provision of hotel rooms for all residents, or for reimbursement for rooms paid for with valid receipt.
Over 1000 residents of the Arrive Wheaton apartments at 11215 Georgia Avenue in Wheaton remain homeless this evening, after their building was condemned by Montgomery County. A major flood in the building's sub-basement forced the shut-off of power and water to the apartments above. Most shockingly, according to residents, they are being forced to sleep on cots in an emergency shelter, rather than being put up in hotels by the building owner.
Michelle Rodriguez, a spokesperson for Arrive Wheaton, said that the building management had offered to reimburse residents for hotel rooms if they could show receipts. However, she said they learned that some residents had instead gone to emergency shelters, and they procured hotel rooms for those individuals. It was not immediately clear if the residents who indicated they went to shelters were not aware of the reimbursement offer, or did not have the funds to make the initial payment to a hotel.
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