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PEREZ v. BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY

379 Mass. 703 (1980)

400 N.E.2d 1231

ARMANDO PEREZ & others vs. BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 4, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Michelson (Paul M. Stein with him) for the defendant.

Bruce E. Mohl for the plaintiffs.

Gerard J. Clark, for the Boston Public Housing Tenants' Policy Council, Inc., intervener.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.

KAPLAN, J.

Nine persons, tenants in various developments of the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), brought this action for themselves and on behalf of the whole class of tenants of BHA similarly situated, seeking to vindicate their statutory rights to decent, safe, and sanitary housing. (See G.L.c. 121B, § 32; also c. 111, § 127H). The judge below found at successive stages of the action that many of the units and common facilities of BHA housing were in substandard...

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