Perry v. Housing Authority Of The City Of Charleston

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding no right of action exists for tenants in redevelopment project seeking relief against continued state of disrepair and health hazards
• holding housing statutes create no rights in tenants for purposes of section 1983
• concluding the Housing Act is a “simple precatory statement ] of Congress’s designs”
• finding \no indication in the legislation\-including § 1437 -\or in its history that Congress intended to create in public housing tenants a federal right of action against their municipal landlords\
• no implied private right of action under United States Housing Act of 1949 for injunctive relief against unsafe and unsanitary conditions at public housing project
• “It would be hard to find an area of the law in which the states have a greater interest or have had greater involvement than in the legal area of landlord-tenant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).