City of Albuquerque v. Brooks

OPINION

RANSOM, Chief Justice.

This case arose under the New Mexico Uniform Owner-Resident Relations Act, NMSA 1978, Sections 47-8-1 to -51 (Repl.Pamp.1982 & Supp.1992). It involves a twenty-year tenant of a public housing unit. The metropolitan court granted a request by the City of Albuquerque for a money judgment in the amount of $2,305.05, plus costs, and for a writ of restitution (ordering the premises be vacated within thirty days of the hearing held April 1, 1991). The evidence showed that Vergia Brooks, the tenant, failed to report that she and a member of her household earned certain…