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OTERO v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY

No. 72 Civ. 1733.

354 F.Supp. 941 (1973)

Francisco OTERO et al., Plaintiffs, v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

February 8, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy E. Leblanc, MFY Legal Services, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Otto M. Bonaparte, New York City Housing Authority, New York City, Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., New York City, for defendants George Romney and Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Kalman Finkel, The Legal Aid Society, New York City, Marcel Weber, National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs, Brooklyn, N. Y., for intervenors.

OPINION

LASKER, District Judge.

One out of every 15 or 16 people in the City of New York—a total of 550,000 persons—lives in public housing.1 In periods of urban decay and housing shortage such as have existed almost continuously since the end of World War II, and particularly in recent years, the allocation of available public accommodations has been of acute concern to low income families looking for a decent...

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