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...Kemp's advocacy of private ownership of housing projects has won support from many urban residents, as well as the predictable criticism from their socalled liberal defenders, who, as Kemp says, "believe that people who live in public housing units are not capable of keeping a decent, safe home or even of caring for themselves...
Many liberals find Kemp's commitment to capitalist and self-empowerment principles disturbing, particularly for the head of a department commonly believed to be their domain. Democrats cannot or will not admit that their tried and tested methods of urban development--which have empowered bureaucracies rather than people--haved failed...
BESIDES his ideas, Kemp's contagious enthusiasm, sincere compassion and unshakable optimism are personal qualities that Democrats--with the exception of Jesse Jackson--have lacked since the days of Bobby Kennedy. While cocktail party liberals talk about the poor, Kemp talks with them, face to face on his many tours through the most embattled streets of America...
Although many say he wanted to run the Treasury, Kemp has found his niche in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Months after assuming the post, he proposed more than 50 recommendations to combat the political favoritism and corruption that has plagued the department in previous Democratic and Republican administrations...
...reforms succeed, Kemp will be remembered for turning a bureaucratic cesspool into an effective and vibrant instrument of reform...