{"id":505,"date":"2015-10-12T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=505"},"modified":"2023-12-15T22:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:00:54","slug":"public-housing-tenant-can-be-evicted-for-criminal-drug-use-without-any-protections-otherwise-available-under-state-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2015\/10\/12\/public-housing-tenant-can-be-evicted-for-criminal-drug-use-without-any-protections-otherwise-available-under-state-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Public housing tenant can be evicted for criminal drug use without any protections otherwise available under state law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Wisconsin state statute provides tenants a 5-day right to cure any violation of the lease terms before being evicted. Wis. Stat. \u00a7704.17(2)(b). But the Wisconsin Supreme Court concluded that public housing tenant who engages in drug-related activity can be evicted without a right to cure because federal law (the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, 42 U.S.C. \u00a71437d(1)(6), provides that any such activity is grounds for eviction. The state statute was preempted by federal law and thus could not stand as an impediment to the eviction.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinions\/13\/pdf\/13-2207.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">\u00a0Milwaukee City Hous. Auth. v. Cobb<\/a>, 860 N.W.2d 267 (Wis. 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/leaseholds\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leaseholds<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin state statute provides tenants a 5-day right to cure any violation of the lease terms before being evicted. Wis. Stat. \u00a7704.17(2)(b). But the Wisconsin Supreme Court concluded that public housing tenant who engages in drug-related activity can be evicted without a right to cure because federal law (the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, 42 U.S.C. \u00a71437d(1)(6), provides that any such activity is grounds for eviction. The state statute was preempted by federal law and thus could not stand as an impediment to the eviction.\u00a0Milwaukee City Hous. Auth. v. Cobb, 860 N.W.2d 267 (Wis. 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leaseholds"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}