The ugliness of the law, as I understand it, is that you don't even have to be living there. Not only are you a target, but the immiseration of your whole family is the goal. It doesn't look rational, of course, but then it's impossible to understand the drug war without analyzing it racially (Rockefeller & Nixon's get the blacks/get the hippies strategy). We recently had a case here where a woman was arrested for possession of crack, charges dropped (since she didn't actually have any crack), but because she was arrested they started to evict her from public housing. The housing authority claimed in that case that it didn't have to prove you used or possessed drugs, just that a 'credible source' (i.e. the arresting officer in this case) said you did. The upside is she fought, appealed it and won. That never made the newspaper of course.
Jenny Brown