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t in ; th: )01 City in h the mime Ye G c ? C l ti . 1 : :y or r h C c y said t at such houses 1„( 2C c1 1 l .l t r s to ' ( people living in t ef , Eileen Gray said that the h( Js Jrg ntst be saved , if possi ble . B ui 1i'.• S_� j Official ^ Ji( . b aL ( ( said { } ! J there C a whole s C Lf s of 1 Uv J Emu with ?e Jc hr� . r Street r c s --c { . Y aC tG d ti . 1 . r , bad plumbing . They lw been ,, c., . stri. ca .l_ed in 1897 ::.n 1906 a •n1 have � r t �[ 7 �c t'T : f r7 � � � '+•' t� 1 1 1 I � '� 1 C F? J. : ... ,. ,..,, .' .� �. ,� �, r ,. C . CCU .,." little or ?1C. [1'l.. .x 't,t�1I•: 7_ . . for today ' s living requi. a' )nent•s , 1: he said . The teal concern should be the provision of low -income housing , he said . Ever x Ce C cy said that Sa 1 Francisco ' s ex ;c cnce is that ai ,ei an expenditure of several ti,r:.{scLnd dollars in the rehai:ii.1. it='.t:i o?). of a dwelling , the rent goes up and the people are dislocated anyway . Oonseuent1y; he sa:i.d , San Francisco has dropped code eriforcerent because -i t creates more problems than it solves . Debbie c1au 'egUi , 2.11.8 Fourth Avenue ,, said that , in the Jackson Street case , the landlord rd o neci , 'Tented , ':.rid profit ed from the two houses , but had never done any maintenance On the.:' . When At came tune for him to put a little money into the??? , he put the people into the street . She said there slroUld be a law requiring landlords to put money back. into their hollsing u:i thout ra:i.E :i.1ig the rent . Since 11 was illegal for people t0 live in substandard houses , she SRLd , the landlord had been encouraging the tenants to break the lair by renting n to them . Dale de Troche said that he had lived in his house four years and hadn ' t been And _ dan:•.Tcrcf � 1):/ -� 1i ^� 1) ace yet . 7!nd he l...r, ` ' 1•{.7,•�re of the e for relocation--being (fic•' tio1�--being . Y3.4// � N ,A �. 1)lace • . .1 � r\. 1... aware need A \._ J, ��_`� L/1 faced with mov ni4 into the stcue' certa]_n.l :v didn ' t suggest to him compassion on the landlord ' s part . Fred lioderer :shod Building Official Gyselbrecht if there was any give -and-take in the codes . Would a ::aedwood foundation have been okay? Gyselbrecht said that if nothing else had been wrong with the houses ; it wouldn ' t have been an issue . The overall condition of any building determines the extent of the Building Department ' s actions , he said . Assistant City 14anager Ji_in Smith said that the City is mandated to protect the citizens ' health , \rzlfare , _ and safety , and had no intention of abdicating that . He said that the Fire Department had photos of charred houses and charred bodies that might make people think twice about that . Besides , he said , what would have happened if the landlord had decided to tear the houses down w ithc;it the City getting involved . Housing Aide Ransom said that an independent contractor h<ad estimated that the foundations could have been satisfactorily and relatively inexpensively replaced by methods not up to current codes . Was he correct in thinking that the Building Department would require foundations to be cement and to be to new-house specifications? Building Official Cy elbrecht said that replacement foundations must conform to the minimum criteria for foundations of today ' s codes . Housing Aide Ransom said that the situation with which the people in the Jackson Street houses had been faced was quite common in Redwood City : one in which a landlord would buy up - low-income housing having the interest in the housing itself but only in speculating in the property and waiting until he could put up apartments on it, or sell it to somebody who wanted to put up apartments , MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE AUGUST 2 , 1972 PAGE 3 OF 8