How do you explain the consequences of losing public housing because of drug possession?

"New York", United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Suazo, 118 N.E.3d 168, 32 N.Y.3d 491, 93 N.Y.S.3d 629 (N.Y. 2018):

explain how the loss of public housing because of a simple drug possession misdemeanor (see 42 U.S.C. 1437d [l][6] ) does not transform that offense into a "serious" crime requiring trial by jury (see In Re SantiagoMonteverde, 24 N.Y.3d 283, 292, 998 N.Y.S.2d 144, 22 N.E.3d 1012 [2014] ["Affordable housing is an essential need"] ). Now that the door has been opened, "singl[ing] ... out" deportation "for special treatment" will be hard to explain "when ... so many civil laws today impose similarly severe sanctions" ( Sessions v. Dimaya, U.S. , 138 S.Ct. 1204, 1231, 200 L.Ed.2d 549 [2018] [Gorsuch, J., concurring in judgment] ).

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