Goodwin v. Gleidman

OPINION OF THE COURT

Helen E. Freedman, J.

The increasing numbers of homeless people and the decreasing availability of decent temporary and permanent housing are issues of great public concern at the present time.1

The matters before me specifically concern compliance by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) with its own regulations for relocating displaced tenants into appropriate housing, and the validity of a recent change in the definition of what constitutes appropriate housing.

Petitioners in these article 78 proceedings are residents of the Fox Street Emergency…