Baines v. Berlin

OPINION OF THE COURT

Doris Ling-Cohan, J.

Petitioner Mashon Baines, who is homeless and disabled as the result of hypertension and restricted mobility, has been housed in the city shelter system since approximately June 4, 2008, with her disabled domestic partner and three minor children (ages 6, 9, and 10), for whom she is the primary caretaker. Currently, she and her family are in the Life Family shelter since November 10, 2010. They were transferred to the Life Family shelter from the Crotona Inn shelter, after the alleged incident (explained further below), and had been in the Crotona Inn…