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[FR Doc No: 94-21576]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing 
Commissioner
[Docket No. N-94-3813; FR 3779-N-01]

 

New Partnerships To Expand Homeownership Opportunities; Notice of 
Public Meetings

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a series of open meetings to be 
conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to discuss 
new partnerships to expand homeownership opportunities in America. 
Participants in the meetings will include representatives of 
organizations from the private, public, and community sectors. The 
purpose of these meetings is to discuss reaching all-time high national 
homeownership rates by the end of the decade, with millions of new 
homeowners, including new homeowners from racial and ethnic minority 
groups, low and moderate income families, recent immigrants, young 
first-time homebuyers, and other underserved populations.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Marc Weiss, Special Assistant to the Secretary, Office of the 
Secretary, HUD, room 10222, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20410-0500, telephone (202) 708-3630 (not a toll-free number). The 
toll-free TDD number is 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Time and Place

    Initial meetings will be held on August 31, at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 
p.m. and are subject to change. Location of the meetings will be 
determined subject to anticipated attendance. Interested parties are, 
therefore, encouraged to contact Marc Weiss at (202) 708-3630 to 
confirm attendance and location of the meetings. Future meetings will 
be held on an ad hoc basis. Information on future meetings can also be 
obtained from Marc Weiss in the Office of the Secretary.

Issues

    Meetings will focus on one or more of the following issues: Goals 
and Subgoals; Cutting Financing Costs; Cutting Production Costs; 
Opening Markets and Targeting Underserved Populations; Targeting Areas 
and Building Communities; Raising Awareness and Expanding Opportunities 
through Information, Education, and Counseling; and Governance, 
Reinvention, and Long-Term Structure.

Public Participation

    These are open meetings. Attendance is open to the public. In order 
to ensure adequate accommodations for everyone, interested parties are 
encouraged to contact the Department prior to the meeting.
    The Department believes that these meetings are not subject to the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The meetings will focus on the 
exchange of information and not serve as a forum to obtain consensus 
advice or recommendations. In addition, all attendees will be permitted 
to participate in the discussion and activities of the group and its 
sub-groups.

    Dated: August 26, 1994.
Jeanne K. Engel,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing 
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 94-21576 Filed 8-29-94; 8:45 am]
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