HUD/Willow Street Apartments v. Gonzalez

Opinion

FLYNN, J.

The defendant1 in this summary process action, Margarita Gonzalez, appeals from the trial court’s judgment of possession in favor of the plaintiff, HUD/Willow Street Apartments. Resolution of this appeal requires us to construe two separate and distinct but similarly numbered statutes. The first statute we refer to, General Statutes § 47a-23, applies to evictions generally. The second, General Statutes § 47a-23c, sometimes called the “good cause” eviction statute, applies to evictions involving a protected class of tenants, namely, those who are elderly, blind or disabled and…