A judge has annulled a housing agency’s refusal to allow a woman to stay in her late grandmother’s New York City apartment, saying the agency’s underlying requirements failed to comply with due process protections.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Peter Moulton granted Arielle Figueroa’s Article 78 petition, voiding the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) dismissal of her remaining family member grievance because the agency found she was not current on use and occupancy payments, which is essentially rent for non-lessees.

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