Cole v. Brookline Housing Authority

The plaintiffs, twenty-six taxable inhabitants of Brookline, filed suit in Superior Court against the defendants Brookline Housing Authority (BHA) and Lewis S. W. Crampton, Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs (DCA), seeking to halt work on a BHA project involving the acquisition and renovation of several existing apartment buildings for use as low income housing. The BHA had begun the project after obtaining the approval of the DCA, as required by G. L. c. 121B, § 31. The plaintiffs claimed that G. L. c. 121B, § 31, re quired public notice of the BHA’s application for DCA…