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i . • policy directives by the HCC for the Council . If an area within the test neighborhood was found that required 'clearance , detailed information about the people who lived there could then be developed , so that the City would be talking about specifics in terms of real people . If relocation is what ' s required , then questions come up like do you temporarily relocate them and then move them back into the neighborhood , or is that not a factor . In another set of circumstances , if the rents are too high , landlord-tenant relations come into play . The HCC would be dealing with "a real set of circumstances , as real as we can construct it . " This would be in order to provide specific guidance to the Committee for its decisions for the Council . Mary Henderson said that she was concerned about the people thing . How to get them to feel good about the program rather than have people come down to City Hall and say "keep your cotton-picking hands out of our neighborhood . " Jim Fales said that to do that, first you study the neighborhood , and then you don ' t do anything unless you have lots of input from the neighborhood . Ken Schroeter said that generally people in government think of overcoming resistance , but the object ought to be to make the benefits known rather than to overcome resistance . . Fred Soderer suggested the City 'assume that it would become generally known that the area was going to be studied in detail . He asked if, in such a case , it wouldn ' t be better to be an aggressor in explaining the purpose and benefits • . of the project . . Jim Pales said that that should be done through personal contact . That normally comes when you have a presence in the neighborhood , he said , and that normally comes when you have somebody inspecting the structures . Dick Rivas said that, first of all , the absentee landlords should be identified and informed about what was being done . Then renters should be told what the benefits are . Owners could be told how to refinance under a lower rate of interest , and that if they are living in a home in standard condition , that they won' t be bothered . The important thing is that it ' s something that can be done . • Mary Henderson wondered if something shouldn ' t be written up about the fact that we are going to do something in the neighborhood . Jim Fales said that the City had run some dry runs with a fellow in the building department "particularly adept at this " in another neighborhood . He had explained what was going on on a one-to-one basis and met with nothing but enthusiasm, he said . Staff wanted to go through the process of finding out what we can do about housing in one neighborhood so that we can apply the process in the rest of the City, Fales said . Bob Norris asked whetter , if you wanted to show what you could do with pilot programs , it could be done . MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 8 , 1972 PAGE 3 OF 7 \