At least 95 percent of the city's 140,000 public housing residents are black.
"It is not fair to the residents of public housing."
The average annual income for public housing residents is between $5,000 and $6,000 a year.
The idea that public housing residents give back something to their community has been widely popular for some time in Washington.
He was particularly active in expanding opportunity for the residents of public housing.
Low-income public housing residents, like other Americans, want our country to be strong economically.
"This case is about trying to use the residents of public housing to integrate the suburbs," he said.
Because of the changes, many public housing residents have refused to leave the area, where roots run generations deep.
But residents of public housing don't have the political clout to get the police that they need.
Aren't most public housing residents living where they are because they need government assistance to provide for themselves?