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Mr . Boxlcy said that he felt that housing for low-income people , not fair housing , had to be the main concern in the County , since even the County ' s consultant studies show that poor and moderate income people are being forced out of the County . The Housing Authority is the only legally constituted vehicle • in the County for solving the housing needs of poor people , he said . And without a dramatic turn-around of the policy cf forcing poor people out of the County , it is the only way to make sure that some poor people will continue to live in the County . But unreconstructed , the present Housing Authority is merely a perpetuation of the policy of forcing poor people out of the County . The County Committee for Community Development will hold a public meeting on the Housing Authority on August 9, he said . He said he hoped that citizen outrage would be sufficient to make changes in the Housing Authority . Then perhaps the community could focus attention on Big Brother HUD , he said . City Manager Fales asked for copies of the IBiD review and Cliff Boxleyts chronology of criticisms of the Housing Authority . He said that a housing authority established under the State Health and Safety Code , like the one in this County , has full control over their staff, once their commissioners are appointed by the Board of Supervisors . Such a housing authority also has considerable powers in terms of building housing , he said . Cliff Boxley added that it even has eminent domain and might well be able to get around Article all of the State Constitution requiring public housing proposals to be submitted to popular referendum . He said that a foresighted Housing Authority, established as early as this one wa.s- -194l- -would have acquired available land when it was cheap . Housing Aide Ransom pointed out that the Board of Supervisors may be part of the problem. In the fall , he said , angry citizen ' s groups had persuaded the Housing Authority commissioners to recommend that an empty seat on their board be filled by a low-income chi c an_o . But the Board of Supervisors went right ahead and filled it with a retired Bank of America executive . Chairman Keckley reminded the Committee that it hadn ' t acted on the Manager ' s recommendations that the HCC ask for comments on the MCFH recommendations from the Tri -County Apartment Association . It was moved and carried that that be done . City Manager Fales suggested that Mr . Synts recommendations concerning landlord/ tenant relations be referred to staff . That was done . Bob Norris moved that the Manager ' s suggestion for an annual audit of discrimination in rentals in Redwood City be tabled until the earliest convenient HCC meeting after the meetings with the owners . That carried . The HCC decided to refer AB 1878--on the State ' s giving up pre-emption in the fair housing field--to the Council Legislative Committee for study . City Manager Fales reported that the League of California Cities is already discussing the bill . • MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE JULY 26 , 1972 PAGE 4 OF 5