People in Southeast Houston are about to get a lot of new neighbors. But many residents told 11 News they would rather not.

That’s because a low-income housing complex is planned for a plot of land near the South Belt and Gulf Freeway.

Maria Flickinger, for one, wishes she had more say before developers picked the spot for the complex.

"There's nothing wrong with doing it but an excess of anything is bad,” she said.

It's not that she opposes low-income housing. It's just the numbers.

The first five low-income housing projects near her home were fine, she said. But she didn't like the sixth and now the plans for a seventh.

For Flickinger, it’s just too much for this community that feeds into Pasadena ISD.

"There hasn't been any help for the schools that are having a harder time teaching these (kids) and what it does it lowers the education not just for the students coming in but for the ones that are already there,” Flickinger insisted.

She has support in the form of a Pasadena ISD board member.

"You are going to put these kids possibly in harm's way,” said board trustee Fred Roberts.

He wants the Houston City Council to halt the project or move it. Or at least build sidewalks along the field so students could walk to the nearest elementary school a mile away.

But the developer believes the complaints are about more than safety and overcrowding.

"The reason we are out in a vacant field is because more or less our history has shown that if we go out into a neighborhood, they don't like us either,” said developer Steve Ford.

Flickinger insisted the opposition is not to low income families, just that this community has more than its fair share of housing for the poor.

“We're saying hey, we want our share, we'll work with our share and do what we can,” she said.

Low-income housing is generally meant for families earning between $25,000 and $50,000 a year. The director of Houston's Housing Department says that covers your teachers, young police officers, and folks just out of college.

No city tax dollars would be used to build the complex, the developer would instead use federal income tax credits to fund the project.

Still, the Houston City Council has to approve it and that vote could happen Wednesday.