The New York City Housing Authority’s attempt to evict a mentally ill senior citizen with more than 30 years as a NYCHA tenant was “unnecessarily harsh,” a Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday.
Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan (See Profile) held the action was “disproportionate to the offense of failing to appear at the scheduled hearing and, in light of all the circumstances, shocking to one’s sense of fairness.”
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