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) Mr , Soderer said that he lzoocd the dat• , on sui)st:A1ldard housing would be charted . Page 28 , "Population Growth and Aging of Stock . " Mr . Norris said that he thought this right be a good place to reiterate the need for low- income housing and to suggest:, , perhaps , that where older houses reach the end of their useful life the: ):.., ijIL be replaced 1Jn a one —for- one basis with low-income heuc' i g . mrs , i << mdc•r,' o;l ..: 21;cd that at least one of the pop-i.i:I t-ior projections be in number of people , rather than number o:i' households . Mr . Itiori is wondered what verSial of a "completion" of Rcdw7bod Shores , the Report ' s "high projections " arch made on . Planning Director Schrocter said that the population projections don ' t hinge on the Shores , but that they were more at the mercy of the development dynamics of San I•:ateo County . As presently zoned , he s:ii d , Redwood City could house some half million people . Mr . Norris said that he would like to begin putting an end to the assumption that completion of Redwood Shores meant a population of 60 . 000 there . Page 30 , "Federal. Programs . " Mr . Norris said that the assertion at the beginning of the section that "federal legislation extends the promise of subsidized hour i.nL; to nearl-y half of the nation ' s households " needed supporting evidence . He said that he felt that such a high level of subsidy might turn off a Tarr e number of people . Mr . Soderer said that he found the section , with its multitude of unfunded programs , discouragi rig . Housing Aide Ransom said that he would be pleased to go into greater detail and explain that the housing " subsidies " proposed by Congress were merely a return of l. ocal. t!Lxpayer:' ' := money , not a handout , that builders and investors in apartment buildings have been subsidized by federal_ tax breaks since the mid- fifties , and th::t the failure of unsubsidi.Led private enterprise to provide for a basic need of a large part of our population is what has brol.?jht on the need for subsidies . Mr . Morii.guchi said he thought developing those ideas was a good idea . Lou Knowles suggested that the section include some mat.r i.al showing FHA ' s part in development heretofore , as a kind of subsidy . Housing Aide Ransom said that he intended to update the figures for the number of units completed in the federal programs , but that the programs still would not look very successful . He said that if federal programs were inadequate , then the Committee and the community would have to face up to that and seek other methods for alleviating the high cost of housing , rent control perhaps being one of. them . The Report was supposed to be background to the Housing Element , he said ; and he hoped soon to recommend a series or proposals for dealing with the housing, crisis which could beeoi,ne p'rt of the Housing Element . Lou Knowles said that if the City demonstrated aggressively that it wants subsidized housing—perhaps designatincr, areas for low/moderate income housing in the General Plan , or changing zoning-- --that federal money is likely to come to the City, despite a general lack of federal funding . Page 32 , "Housint Programs in Redwood City. " Both Mrs . Henderson and Mr . Moriguchi. raised objections to naming the sponsors of local Mu/moderate-income projects . They sugr--ested that the references to the First Congregational Church , 1<cyer Realty , and Frank Aiello ' s Denson Properties be dropped and something more x::c'---' , like t ) 00.0 c.) lj reh cu d )_oeal builder" be r) l.t in their:c p"1. ;.., e . h IN-OT S HU11 SlN0 CO1:CE ".s COMMITTEE i .LEE s :AY 24 , 1972 PAGE 2 OF 4