The Nation - News from July 30, 1989

An $11.6-million HUD-guaranteed loan for a California housing project was approved after a campaign strategist for Presidents Bush and Ronald Reagan intervened, the New York Times reported. Louis Kitchin of Atlanta, who was Reagan’s Southern political director in 1984 and was a senior campaign adviser to Bush last year, told the newspaper he was paid about $30,000 for his assistance on a San Diego project. Documents indicate that regional officials of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1987 had opposed the apartment complex for the elderly for economic reasons but were overruled by HUD political appointees.