Legal Opinion
Brenda Edwards v. District of Columbia, a Municipal Corporation
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 12, 1987No. 85-6150PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALD, Chief Judge:
The United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, provides that the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development may only approve an application from a local public housing agency for demolition of a federally funded housing project if the local agency complies with certain conditions set out in the statute. In this case, the District of Columbia’s local public housing agency has submitted a demolition application without complying with the conditions, and, accordingly, the Secretary has not approved the application. Plaintiffs maintain, however, that the…
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