The Deep State

By Tom Haughey

When Jack Kemp left Congress and became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1989 under the first President Bush, he had a problem. Much of the welfare housing was in a sorry state because residents weren’t maintaining it. They had no reason to because it wasn’t theirs. Kemp had the idea of setting aside part of the HUD properties for residents to buy as row houses or condos. That way they would have a stake in repairing and maintaining their homes and would be able to build equity. Unfortunately, however, Kemp’s brainstorm stepped on some career bureaucrat’s toes. After all, if housing was sold there wouldn’t be as much work for career civil servants running said communities.

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