Housing Authority of City of Erie v. Szymecki (In Re Szymecki)

OPINION

WARREN W. BENTZ, Bankruptcy Judge.

Issue

The issue is whether The Housing Authority of the City of Erie (“Erie Housing Authority” or “EHA”) may evict the debtors from their apartment in a low-income public housing project on account of repeated defaults in payment of rent, all of which were eventually cured, except the balance owing at the time of the filing of the within bankruptcy on August 26, 1987.

Facts

The debtors have been tenants under the EHA under a month-to-month tenancy since at least August, 1984. During that time, the EHA has, on eight prior occasions for different defaults,…