Sharply criticizing the New York City Housing Authority for “blindly” applying its rules, a state judge said the agency should not have ordered the eviction of a 75-year-old mentally disabled woman on the sole grounds that her husband failed to get written permission for her to live with him before he died of brain cancer.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger (See Profile) also wrote in her May 19 opinion in Russo v. NYCHA, 402268/12, that Clara Russo was denied due process by a NYCHA hearing officer who “simply glided through” a hearing that both Russo and her NYCHA-appointed guardian clearly did not understand.
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