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Kemp to Speak at Endowment-Sponsored Lecture at Harvard
 Jack Kemp, the former secretary of housing and urban development during the George H.W. Bush Administration, will deliver the seventh annual John T. Dunlop Lecture in Cambridge, Mass. on Sept. 28. The lecture is co-sponsored by the National Housing Endowment and the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Kemp, a former congressman, is the founder and chairman of Kemp Partners, a strategic consulting firm. In 1993, he was a co-founder of Empower America, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy and advocacy group, with former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick. In 1996, he received the Republic Party nomination for vice president. Since then, he has campaigned nationally for taxation, Social Security and education reform.
Recently Kemp and Henry Cisneros, former HUD secretary during the Clinton Administration, received the 2005 Search for Common Ground Award for Bipartisan Cooperation for their collaboration on the creation of a bipartisan national housing agenda. The Common Ground awards are presented annually to recognize achievements in conflict resolution, community building and peacemaking.
Kemp and Cisneros worked closely with Kent Colton, former CEO of NAHB, and Nicolas P. Retsinas, the director of Harvard’s Joint Center of Housing Studies, to publish, “Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy.” The publication, available through the Joint Center, was sponsored in part by the National Housing Endowment.
 The lecture series honors John T. Dunlop, Lamont University professor emeritus of Harvard University from 1985 to 2003 and advisor to Presidents, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also was the secretary of labor during the Ford Administration. In 1986, Dunlop was named to the NAHB Housing Hall of Fame. He also was a founding trustee of the endowment.The Dunlop Lecture is open to the public. For more information, e-mail Elizabeth England, of the Joint Center for Housing Studies.
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