Hous. Auth. of St. Louis County v. Boone (Mo. Ct. App. 1988)

In this pre-VAWA case, a public housing tenant requested that the housing authority remove her husband from the lease after he fired a gun in the apartment. Shortly thereafter, the tenant informed the housing authority that she had separated from her husband. She requested a hearing and asked for a rent adjustment based on the change in her family composition and income. At the hearing the tenant submitted a restraining order she had obtained against her husband, but the housing authority refused to act on the tenant’s request to remove him from the lease. The court ordered the housing authority to reduce the tenant’s rent to reflect the change in her family composition, to terminate the husband’s tenancy, and to renew the tenant’s lease for one year.