Rick Lazio: “I believe does affect those activities that threaten the health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises.…”

“I believe does affect those activities that threaten the health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises. There are incidents, however, that may fall slightly below that threshold or may be questions of controversy as to whether they do or do not, and it shifts the burden to management to have to go through not one but two different processes. The point is that anybody else in life, when they are violating a part of the lease, are subject to having their differences resolved through the landlord-tenant courts. That is still available for people who are in public housing. We encourage people in public housing, as we do with the management, to resolve their differences short of going to court. But if they cannot be resolved informally, then what we ought not be allowing is to have people who are problem people to have two bites of the apple and shift that burden entirely to the housing authorities. And the people that are really burdened are not the managers or administrators of the housing authorities, but in fact the other residents that come perhaps after in that unit, that need that unit.”