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Y if " depending on their tax bracket" was added to the sentence asserting that businessmen and professionals could sometimes earn 30 percent per year on their investment in housing . City Manager Fales suggested that somewhere between federal programs and future plans a distinction could be made between multi -unit rentals and privately owned detached single -family dwellings . Housing Aide Ransom said that he could add reference to the Section 235 program, which provides federal subsidies for single-family homeownership to low/moderate-income households . Mary Henderson again pointed out that what was titled "Future Plans" in fact discussed existing deficiencies in Redwood City and wondered why this was so . Planning Director Schroeter said that as it was towards the end of the report , this section was to give some indication of " light at the end of the tunnel . " He asked that the Planning Department be allowed to come up with a title for the section that would both give that impression ' and make it clear that the section discussed existing deficiencies . The Committee read and accepted with commendation the closing paragraph of the final section, "Summary . " Mary Henderson nosed , Gene Moriguchi seconded , and the members present voted unanimously to accept the report . `r Chairman Keckley introduced Joellyn Murphy, Vice President for Fair Housing of the Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing (MCFH) , to report on her organization ' s "audits' of racial discrimination in Redwood City apartment rentals . What s},e had to report , she said , was "most disturbing . " Redwood City had been found to have the highest rate of discrimination of the six cities audited by MCFH ' n the past year . She said that the MCFH auditing teams had been composed as much as possible of likes in age , sex , and education . The black and white members of their teams had determined the rental conditions of the apartment in separate • interviews , then written down what they were told , which was then compared . They had had sixty-eight volunteers for this work, who turned in 700 hours of -work , one of them, Miss Elton Richardson , putting in a hundred hours herself . (Miss Richardson and Mr . and Mrs . Alan Simon were co-captains of the Redwood City audit . ) Joellyn Murphy said that MCFH was not a " finger pointing" organization , but that its purpose was to deflate those who would say that there was "no problem here . " The audit is only Step One of their program, she said , Step Two being an affirmative action program. Sylvester McGuire asked if the survey had been done in any particular neighborhoods and if they had audited apartments on Farm Hill. Joellyn Murphy said that they had attempted to cover all neighborhoods of Redwood City and had completed successful audits of one third of all apartment units in the city , including Farm Hill . Sylvester McGuire asked if they had discovered any pattern in this -- areas which discriminated most . Joellyn Murphy said that they had been unable to analyze their data in that way and were looking for someone with computer knowledge to do that for them. They had limited their audit to apartments of MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE JUNE 14 , 1972 PAGE 2 OF 4