Sumpter v. White Plains Housing Authority

Petitioner, an applicant for housing in respondent Authority’s apartments, challenges the determination which rejected his application without specification of any ground other than that he had been found “not eligible for admission as a tenant ’ ’. The statute, however, provides that in such case the Authority shall file in its office a written record stating the reasons for ineligibility and shall advise the applicant that he may be apprised of the reasons at a personal interview at the office of the Authority (Public Housing Law, § 156-a, as added by L. 1968, ch. 224, eff. July 1, 1968).

The…