A commissioner on the Charlotte Housing Authority has been evicted from a public housing complex after she lost an appeal to remain at the property.
With the eviction, Lucille Puckett also has lost her position as resident commissioner on the housing authority's governing board, agency spokeswoman Deborah Clark said today. Residents must be in good standing in order to serve on the board.
Puckett had served as resident commissioner since 2009.
WCNC-TV, the Observer's news partner, reported last year that the housing authority went to court to evict Puckett from the Dillehay Courts public housing complex after she met repeatedly with a man who had been banned from CHA property.
Puckett did not dispute meeting with the man on public housing property. But she accused the housing authority of retaliating against her because she is outspoken about CHA decisions to ban trouble makers from its properties, WCNC reported.
The housing authority has said it treated Puckett "with the same level of objectivity and adherence to our policy as any other Authority resident would receive." In a news release today, the authority also said she "had an opportunity to be heard multiple times before North Carolina courts."
“While it is unfortunate this occurred, we cannot conduct business with the Resident Commissioner any differently than any other CHA resident,” Joel Ford, chairman of the CHA board of commissioners, said in the news release.
