Boston Housing Authority v. Bridgewaters

This is an appeal by Emmitt Bridgewaters from a judgment of the Boston Division of the Housing Court Department awarding possession of his apartment to the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), and denying Bridgewaters’s postjudgment motions to alter or amend the judgment and for relief from the judgment. A judge in the Housing Court concluded that Bridge-waters had violated a provision of his lease by “committing a crime on the public housing development grounds that threatened the health and safety of another resident.” Bridgewaters appealed, and the Appeals Court affirmed. Boston Hous. Auth. v.…