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No one has to tell a group of people like yourselves a long list of dreamy statistics reminding you of what you already know - that people in this country generally, blac working class and poor people particularly, are ill housed in structures over which they have no control, no control over rent, no control over design, no control over location, and no control over maintenance. That is not news to any of you. It ought not [illegible] be news to anyone else. None of you needs to be told that 27 years after the original promise to provide every American family with a healthful and liveable home, one-sixth of our population still lives in dangerous, sub-standard housing. You might want to be re-minded, however, of something your president ^{Richard Nixon} said earlier this year.