JACK KEMP FACES REALITY
LEAD: There was a touch of sad irony in your article. As one read about Jack Kemp's efforts to deal with the startling increase in homelessness and the nation's drastic shortage of housing, the eye could not help but wander to the facing page and there linger over the listings of magnificent mansions and huge apartments (one of 11 pages of luxury homes and estates).
There was a touch of sad irony in your article. As one read about Jack Kemp's efforts to deal with the startling increase in homelessness and the nation's drastic shortage of housing, the eye could not help but wander to the facing page and there linger over the listings of magnificent mansions and huge apartments (one of 11 pages of luxury homes and estates).
No one (and certainly not Jack Kemp) is saying that the logical solution is to put the homeless into all those empty penthouses - there truly is no free lunch. But the juxtaposition (doubtless unintended) of that story and those glamorous ads once again illuminates the growing gap between the haves and the have-nothings in our society.  TONY SAVAGE  Bronx