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physically mobile population result in surpluses of decent housing in some <br />localities and serious shortages inothers? How many presently acceptable <br />houses will slide into maintenance and repair and shifting land uses in <br />our growing and ever-changing urban area? <br /> <br /> The approach to the above stated problems and issues has been <br />developed in light of the fact that housing is more than structures and en- <br />closed space. It includes all of the immediate physical envirorment, both <br />within and outside of buildings, in which families and households live, <br />grow and decline. It is largely manmade. Its primary functions are three: <br /> <br />1. to provide comfortable shelter, <br /> <br />to Provide a proper setting, both within the structure <br />and in its neighborhood, for the day-to-day activities <br />of families and households, of small, infomal groups <br />of children and adults who make them up; and <br /> <br />to provide the locus or location o£ families and other <br />groups within the larger physcial pattern of the <br />locality. <br /> <br /> The revised Santa Arm Housing Element presents a view of needs and <br />problems, primarily in quantitative terms, for housing, looking at the pre- <br />sent and estimating the future in light of the i~nediate past. The approach <br />to the study has been to objectively identify and analyze the pertinent <br />problems and issues and the pros and cons of alternative courses of action <br />in light of those political, social and economic considerations which <br />characterize the City. In analyzing and recomnending goals, policies and <br />actions for housing, the City of Santa Arm has kept in mind the fundamental <br />rights sought to be preserved by our constitutional system. The Housing <br />Element is not intended to fit each individual into an appropriate place <br />in a planned society, but rather to promote the best living and working <br />conditions in an orderly environment that will ensure the greatest pos- <br />sible freedom for all. This is simply saying a little more explicitly ? <br />a decent home and a suitable living enviror~ent. <br /> <br />Area Delineation for the Housing; Anal)sis <br /> <br /> Prior to undertaking the study, it was determined that a broad City- <br />wide approach would be required, in addition to an examination of critical <br /> <br />O5 <br /> <br /> <br />