R.A. Schuetz

Mayor John Whitmire sent the chair of the Houston Housing Authority board a letter Friday morning, asking the organization to hold off on leasing a nearly complete, 398-unit affordable housing complex along Buffalo Bayou East. The Pointe at Bayou Bend had been expected to begin leasing this fall and to be fully occupied by December, according to housing authority documents. “I am greatly concerned with the possibility of residents moving into the apartments at this time,” Whitmire said in his le…