Kemp Pledges Yonkers Housing Funds

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp has made a “multimillion-dollar commitment” to help resolve a longstanding housing desegregation case in Yonkers, N.Y. He would not specify the amount of U.S. funds involved.

Kemp’s actions include approval of construction, on five sites, of 142 new units of public housing in Yonkers. He said that the units are an integral part of a federal court’s plan in the Yonkers litigation to provide low-income and moderate-income housing, open to all races, in predominantly white sections of the city.

“President Bush and I are committed to fair housing and have made the full enforcement of laws against discrimination one of our top priorities” at HUD, Kemp said Friday. “Our actions will help provide low-income housing opportunities for those in need and promote our goal of fair housing for all.”