The eviction of an elderly public housing tenant and his disabled girlfriend of 30 years—based on a 1998 infraction by the woman’s teenage son—”shocks our sense of fairness,” a panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, said Tuesday.

A unanimous panel vacated a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) hearing officer’s eviction order against David Tucker, notwithstanding the fact he “violated a stipulation made over 17 years ago, in which he agreed to exclude” his girlfriend, Tanya Hall.