A tenant’s refusal to comply with rules to sign in and out when leaving the premises of a Section 8 housing development is not grounds for eviction, a Nassau County judge has ruled.
“Without condoning respondent’s stubborn refusal to follow the sign-in rule for tenants, the subject violations do not appear to rise to a level allowing the landlord to charge respondent with a ‘material’ breach of his lease, sufficient to warrant his eviction under the applicable [U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development] regulations governing section 8 lease terminations,” District Court Judge Michael Ciaffa wrote on Oct. 18 in Hempstead Village Housing Associates v. Pitts, LT-005480-11.
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