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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF COVINGTON v. Turner, 295 S.W.3d 123 (2009)

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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF COVINGTON v. Turner, 295 S.W.3d 123 (2009)
Parent Document
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF COVINGTON v. Turner, 295 S.W.3d 123 (2009)
Jurisdiction
Kentucky (state)
Effective Date
2009-05-29

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I conclude, upon a reading of Rucker, that a reliance on 42 U.S.C. § 1437d(l)(6) alone is insufficient where the local housing authority has not made a showing of evidence that it weighed the policy considerations *130 behind evictions in drug-related cases in public housing. This may include, inter alia, a showing of police records evidencing a rampant drug problem, complaints by neighbors of drug problems in the development, etc. Indeed, this view is in accord with the considerations in the Rucker opinion and the resultant directive from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, dated April 16, 2002. In that directive, then Secretary Mel Martinez wrote that