Saturday, June 11, 2022

NYCHA Says Moving a Tenant Can Take a Year even in Cases of Domestic Violence

 

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN NY Mag

SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 10 – An NYC public housing tenant who says she cannot sleep in her apartment in the Linden Houses sued for the right to move elsewhere. But the City says such moves can take up to one year, even in cases of domestic violence.    

  On June 10, 2022 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Lewis J. Liman held a proceeding. Inner City Press covered it.

Judge Liman inquired into the various types of vouchers, and into an apartment in Sheepsheads Bay which doesn't have an oven. The Bronx was in the air.

Also in the air was whether this Jane Doe is "jumping the line" of some more urgently needing to transfer within NYCHA.

The case is Doe v. New York City Housing Authority et al., 22-cv-4460 (Liman) 

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