The Clinton Administration's chief housing official, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, has won Republican praise for some of his initiatives to help depressed urban areas. Those programs include elements of GOP housing policies and have alienated some Democrats. But Republican critics in Congress say Cisneros has not gone far enough toward the GOP approach. NPR's John Nielsen reports that the partisan dispute and the choice of former congressman Jack Kemp as the Republican vice presidential nominee have raised the profile of urban issues in the presidential race.

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