Metrowest Daily News 8/12/10: Safety or freedom? Rules restrict smoking in public housing. When a Wayland board responded to health worries and tenant complaints with a vote last fall prohibiting smoking in the town's public housing, it initially exempted existing occupants out of a sense of fairness.  Last month, Housing Authority board members reconsidered: Since the special allowance left enforcement an impossible task and created its own equity problems, they applied the ban to everyone.