Barker v. Housing Authority

Marshall, Judge.

The appellants are tenants in the appellee’s housing project, built, financed, and operated pursuant to Section 221 (d) (3) of the National Housing Act, 12 USC § 1715 1 (d) (3), and defendants in dispossessory proceedings in the State Court of Coweta County. They appeal from the grants of summary judgments in favor of the plaintiff-appellee Housing Authority. These cases raise the issue, apparently of first impression in Georgia, of what constitutes "good cause” which the Housing Authority must show if it wishes to terminate its tenants’ leases. See Milam v. Housing Authority…