Under the authority's formula, 50 percent of the apartments will go to current public housing tenants.

Similar to the travelers, no provision has been made for where social housing tenants will live.

It would even eject from public housing tenants who use drugs.

Generally, public housing tenants pay 30 percent of their income as rent.

Other cities have seen similar resistance from public housing tenants fearful of change.

All existing qualified public housing tenants will be guaranteed one of the new units built on or off site.

Whether home ownership for public housing tenants can ever happen in a big way is hard to predict.

Here, a large proportion of public housing tenants depend on welfare.

Ultimately, 4,000 units are to be built, 2,400 for public housing tenants.

But that's precisely what they are proposing for social housing tenants.