No one, after all, wants to pay more than they must for housing.

More than 4,500 families are on the city's waiting list for public housing.

The waiting list for public housing is between 1,000 and 1,200 families.

More than 14,500 people are on a waiting list for public housing.

Money for public housing would be cut by $382 million, or 6 percent, to $6 billion.

There are 270,000 families on the waiting list for public housing.

This led to a need for new housing in the area.

In mid-2010, work began to clear the site for new housing.

There is a 13,464-person waiting list for public housing, up 40 percent in three years.

Between 1930 and 1970, about half of the park was developed as an area for housing.