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• of housing programs . When the Committee or the Council talks about rent control , relocation , 1.ihatever. , the question that come to mind is "ho-w" . He said he wants somebody to say how many bucks it is going to cost , where you ' re going to get them, and how you ' re going to do it . Special revenue sharing , a bill 1•,hich Congress is considering , may be of more importance to housing than the general revenue sharing that is in the headlines now . Lou Knowles asked when the HUD man would be available . Jim Pales said that he could be available as early as October and that he would be working out of the Manager ' s office because of the overlap of federal programs and his familiarity with the Neighborhood Center . Lou Knowles said that the fact that this guy is coining onto the staff redoubles the need for a city policy statement on housing . Jim Pales said that tilt., man was "primarily a pragmatic person" not a planner , and that. he would be c , , • entrat:i.ng on implementation of programs . Bob Norris said that w' ; .i e there was no time for his comments on the State Department of Housing and Community Development conference on housing he ) lad attended two weeks previous , that each committee member had a copy of his notes . Tie had been "programmed for disappointment" before he went , he said , but it had turned out that there was a lot of action and the conference had been an excel] er_t one . The meeting was adjourned at 8 : 30 A .M . The next meeting of the Housing Concerns Committee is October 11 , 1972 . • MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 27 , 1972 PAGE 5 OF 5