A single mother and her five children—three of whom are adults—can be evicted from New York City public housing because police found drugs and a loaded gun in their apartment, a unanimous state appeals panel has ruled, reversing a lower court judge.
The Appellate Division, First Department, ruled Tuesday that it did not matter that no evidence tied the mother, Mary Encarnacion Grant, to the gun or drugs, which apparently were brought to the apartment by her older children and their friends. The panel also rejected Grant’s argument that her younger children should not be punished for their older siblings’ actions.
