Boston Housing Authority v. Bruno

The Boston Housing Authority (BHA) appeals from a judgment denying it possession in a summary process action and awarding possession to the tenant, Arthur Bruno (Bruno). As grounds for the eviction, the BHA relied upon a provision in the lease, which, inter aha, forbids any household member from engaging in violent or drug-related criminal activity on or near *487BHA property.1 In similar language, the lease provides elsewhere, in § 9(B), that engagement in criminal activity by the cited class of persons, including but not limited to household members, shall be grounds for eviction of the tenant.…