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tenant’s failure to report income from a new job to the new york city housing authority was a sufficient reason to terminate her tenancy.

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Pigott, reversing the Appellate Division, determined a tenant’s failure to report her income to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) was sufficient reason to terminate her tenancy, The tenant had pled guilty to petit larceny and agreed to repay the NYCHA $20,000 in installments:

Petitioner is a tenant in a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing apartment in Manhattan. In the late 1990s, she became employed, for the first time, as a bookkeeper. She failed to disclose her new earnings to her landlord, each year stating in an affidavit of income that she did not work. This omission allowed petitioner to pay a substantially lower rent than she would have had she revealed the income. …

A vital public interest underlies the need to enforce income rules pertaining to public housing. Despite petitioner’s alleged difficulties if her tenancy is terminated, public housing is of limited availability and there are waiting lists of other families in need of homes, whose situations may be equally sympathetic. If income reporting violations were to be ignored by the NYCHA, there would be … no meaningful deterrent to residents of income-based public housing who misstate their earnings. If residents believe that the misrepresentation of income carries little to no chance of eviction, the possibility of restitution after criminal conviction may not serve adequately to discourage this illegal practice. The deterrent value of eviction, however, is clearly significant and supports the purposes of the limited supply of publicly-supported housing. It follows, then, that NYCHA’s decision to terminate petitioner’s tenancy is not so disproportionate to her misconduct as to shock the judicial conscience. Matter of Perez v Rhea, 2013 NY Slip Op 00953 [20 NY3d 399], CtApp 2-14-13

 

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