041884P.pdf   08/18/2005  Charleston Housing  v.  USDA
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-1884
                          and No:  04-2620
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Murphy and Bright, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Civil case - Public Housing. The Section 515 contract between the 
   Housing Authority and HUD was subject to the payment protocols 
   established in the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act and 
   any attempt to prepay the loan covering the housing units in question had 
   to comply with the protocols; questions concerning whether the housing 
   authority's plans to close and demolish the housing was not moot; district 
   court did not err in finding that the tenants in the housing had established 
   a prima facie case that closing the units would have a disparate impact on 
   minorities; housing authority failed to demonstrate that its proposed 
   actions had a manifest relationship to legitimate non-discriminatory 
   policy objectives and was justifiable on the ground it was necessary to 
   achieve those objectives; case remanded for further proceedings on the 
   nature of the relief to be granted.