HOUSING COMM'N v. LACEY

No. 50, September Term, 1990.

322 Md. 56 (1991)

585 A.2d 219

HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY v. KATHLEEN LACEY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 7, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Debra Aronson, Chevy Chase, and Kenneth B. Tecler, Rockville, for petitioner.

Sally B. Gold, Hylton & Gonzales, Baltimore, amicus curiae, for Housing Authority of Baltimore City.

Daniel J. Popeo, Richard A. Samp, Washington, D.C., Steven A. Loewy, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, amicus curiae, for The Washington Legal Foundation and Karen Stewart.

Marla J. Hollandsworth (University of Baltimore Housing Law Clinic, Baltimore), both on brief, for respondent.

Judith D. Heimlich, Ira J. Rheingold, Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Silver Spring, amicus curiae, for Great Hope Homes Tenants Ass'n and the Resident Advisory Bd. of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City.

Richard C. Boldt, Baltimore, Helen Hershkoff, John A. Powell, New York City, Susan Goering, Baltimore, Arthur B. Spitzer, Elizabeth Symonds, Washington D.C., amicus curiae, for American Civ. Liberties Union.

Argued Before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW and KARWACKI, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.


KARWACKI, Judge.

Since February 15, 1980, Kathleen Lacey has leased a two bedroom apartment at Magruder's Discovery in Bethesda. That facility is an apartment complex, affording federally subsidized housing for its residents. The Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County (HOC) is the public housing authority which manages that apartment complex pursuant to Maryland Code (1957, 1986 Repl.Vol., 1990 Cum.Supp.) Art. 44A, §§ 2-101 et seq....

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