Federal Court Rules That HUD Violated Federal Disposition Act

This NHLP Housing Law Bulletin article is from Nov.-Dec. 2004. Residents of a large HUD-owned multifamily property have successfully challenged sale of the property to the City of Baltimore for demolition and redevelopment as middle- income housing. Although their complaint raised many other significant claims and related issues, this is the first judicial decision in more than a decade that has found that HUD violated the federal property disposition statute. The court also kept alive the tenants’ Fair Housing Act claims against HUD and the city, leaving them for later resolution.