NEW BEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY v. OLAN


435 Mass. 364 (2001)

NEW BEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY v. ELBA OLAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

November 16, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin J. Rooney for the plaintiff.

Christopher R. Whittingham for the defendant.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Wilbur E. Commodore for Boston Housing Authority.

Richard M. Whitehill for Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Housing & Redevelopment Officials, Inc., & another.

Richard M.W. Bauer & Judith Liben for Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


SPINA, J.

Elba Olan had been a tenant for about three years at the Presidential Heights public housing project, a federally subsidized public housing project in New Bedford owned and operated by the New Bedford Housing Authority. On July 14, 1997, the housing authority commenced an action under G. L. c. 139, § 19, seeking cancellation of Olan's lease, a declaration that her lease was void, orders that Olan and her family vacate and surrender forthwith their apartment...

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