Nash v. Washington

MACK, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from a decision by the trial court, on cross-motions for summary judgment, that the National Capital Housing Authority (NCHA) was not required to give appellant an administrative hearing prior to his eviction from a public housing apartment initially leased to his deceased mother and brother. The court reasoned that no pre-eviction hearing was required in view of the plenary hearing afforded in the Landlord and Tenant Branch of the Superior Court once a suit for possession was filed. 1 It refused to grant declaratory relief concerning appellant’s…