Tenants fighting BHA over demolition plan

Up-scale developments have begun to invade the East Boston waterfront, raising property values and threatening to crowd-out poorer residents.

It is a mainly low-income development which has a group of neighborhood residents up in arms, however.

The Boston Housing Authority plans to raze two of its affordable housing structures in the area to make way for a mixed-income project which would include slightly fewer low-income units.

Critics say the BHA's grab for federal funds is aimed at sprucing up its housing developments so they will fit in with the expensive market-rate and luxury developments planned around them, and is not in the best interests of the low-income …