Joyce HardwickHOW IT WORKS
Here’s how a Chattanooga Housing Authority eviction hearing works.The hearing will be conducted by the CHA’s executive director or designee. The tenant in question will be allowed to present evidence and arguments in support of his or her complaint and to make arguments against evidence relied on by the CHA or project management and to confront and cross-examine witnesses.Source: CHA Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy
Eviction looms over a College Hill Courts resident who accused police officers of being verbally abusive and using excessive force and who collected more than 100 signatures on a petition asking for a federal investigation of the housing authority and city police officers.
Joyce Hardwick is scheduled to have an eviction hearing at the Chattanooga Housing Authority on Thursday. On April 10 she was charged with disorderly conduct by police after an incident at College Hills. CHA rules stipulate that commission of a crime on or off public housing property by a tenant or relative can be grounds for eviction.
“I’m not guilty of this charge [disorderly conduct], but I’m going to get put out of my place for it,” said Hardwick, 45, who has lived in College Hill Courts for two years. “We have no say-so over the police.”
If she is evicted, her ouster will make the second eviction in less than two years of a public housing resident who had claimed police harassment.