DeCambre v. Brookline Housing Authority

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

Upon learning that disabled tenant Kimberly DeCambre (“DeCambre”) was receiving distributions from an irrevocable trust account funded with the proceeds from a series of legal settlements, the Brookline Housing Authority (“the BHA”) determined that DeCambre was “over-income” for continued participation in a federal housing assistance program that the BHA administered at the local level. The BHA reaffirmed this determination over DeCambre’s internal appeal and did not grant DeCambre’s requests that it exclude all, or at least some of, these trust dis bursements from its…