Will Public Housing Residents Benefit from Transformation?

One of the sadnesses of public housing transformation has been that it can take up to five years before new, mixed income housing gets built and becomes available. Residents, whose income, by definition, is limited may have moved several times in that period and either are not locatable or don't want to move again.
In the larger, global sense, it may not matter who inhabits the new units designated for low income people in the mixed income developments scattered around the city. After all, it is meeting the needs of someone who needs help with safe, decent, affordable housing.
But in the immediate, personal sense, it is sad that many of the people who were uprooted to make the change, probably won't benefit from it.