ALLEN v. PIERCE

No. 81-1591 Summary Calendar.

689 F.2d 593 (1982)

Juanita ALLEN, Annie L. Ponton, Lois Henderson and Marcy Purdom, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Samuel R. PIERCE, Jr., in his official capacity as the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Piper, Legal Aid Soc. of Central Tex., Fred Fuchs, Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Hugh P. Shovlin, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Steven Goldstein, Office of Gen. Counsel, U. S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, RANDALL and TATE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellants, four low-income individuals, sued the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ("Secretary") and four federally subsidized housing projects in central Texas. Suit against the housing projects was later dismissed by agreement. The gravamen of appellants' suit is to compel the Secretary to implement either a rent supplement program, 12 U.S.C. § 1701s,1 or another low-income tenant subsidy2...

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