Nation IN BRIEF : MARYLAND : Baltimore Revises Public Housing Plan

Housing officials in Baltimore have abandoned a plan to mix middle-income and poor residents in new publicly subsidized housing that will replace two demolished high-rise complexes. Developers have little faith that any middle-income people will want to move into the units, said Housing Commissioner Daniel P. Henson III. Moreover, some public-housing residents had opposed the integration plan, Henson said. As a result, only impoverished city residents will rent or buy in the developments that will replace the Lafayette Courts and Lexington Terrace high-rises, he said. The 800-plus units of Lafayette Courts were razed last year and the 670-unit Lexington Terrace complex will be demolished later this week. They are among scores of ramshackle housing projects being demolished around the country.