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• R • ..., ._> ...—__._ _. 1 t "' r 3 r7"1"-'7-77'17 VF LAND FOR PEOPLE ORGANIZATION . I " ; • iii: Lf4v:wairi 1 . Zrv.y-s_ar ./ ~ 'rte' . . :Lt .... -. .. i, . BOX 295 REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA 94064 364-7777 . • • - . 17 November 1972 . . Housing , Concerns Committee Redwood City California . • . . . • Dear Committee Members : . . There has been some discussion about the problem of requiring a more or less fixed percentage of low and modr . crate income housing in any new development in both Redwood Shores and in Redwood City proper . There • are arguments against attempting to set any such figure , but there are also , we believe , more compelling reasons to at least deal with the data that would be involved in any attempt to set such r percentage . mer e Redwood City J Planning g Department has already gathered all the pertinent data to rather pre-- c: iseZy define the present need. Thus ;, while the political and economic questions remain to be resolved, there should be no hesitation to come up with a percentage figure , as . have both Mlarin County and Fairfax Counq , Virginia , which is a reflection of the established need and a fair assess- ment of our goal . . • The 1970 Census revealed that Redwood City has a pop- ulation of 55 , 686 and 20, 562 households , with an average household size of 2. 7 persons . Out of these households , • 5950 earn gross incomes of $6000 or less , a fair income range to define a low income family . Thus 29% of Redwood City households are low income . If WT use the conservative . figure of $7250 as the upper limit of a moderate income family 6;10, 000 is not an unreasonable upper limit in the Bay Area) we discover another 1600 families , or 8% of the total households , in this category * Adding these categories together , we find that 7550 households or 37% of the total (more than one out of three) are low and moderate income households . • in matchin-g- - this figure with the low and moderate in- come housing stock (using the criteria outlined in the Planning Department ' s report Housina) in the City , there Mf..y..•13-.vFr/IL1 - appear to be at least 4750 low t, ncorne units and 1200 mod- . . erate income units (a total of 5950 units) lacking* •°To; ,c ` ` r : \\ : f • . . Q %)+ «/GA `■.2T a Y :Y I .1 . .