Buying Your Home Settlement Costs and Helpful Information June 1997
    
  
    
  
APPENDIX    Consumer
Information  on Home Purchasing and Related Topics 
    
 U.S. Department of Housing  and Urban Development  451 7th
Street, SW  Washington, DC 20410  Or try their WWW site:
 http://www.hud.gov  
    
For information about FHA-insured home mortgage  loans on
one-to-four family dwellings call:  1-800 CALL FHA (800-225-5342) 
    
For information about buying a HUD home call:  1-800-767-4HUD
(800-767-4483)  
    
For consumer counseling referrals call:  1-888-HOME4US
(1-888-466-3487) 
    
For information regarding housing discrimination  issues contact:
 Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity  (see above HUD
address)  1-800-669-9777  Or try their WWW site:
http://www.hud.gov/fhe/fheo.html 
    
For information about RESPA contact:  Office of Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs  (see above HUD address) 
  
    
Other Agencies: 
    
For information about programs and pamphlets offered by  the
Department of Veterans Affairs,  contact your nearest VA Regional
Office.  Or try their WWW site: http://www.va.gov
/vas/loan 
    
For information about rural housing loan programs contact:  Department
of Agriculture  Rural Development/Rural Housing Services  Stop
0783  Washington, DC 20250  Or try their WWW site:
http://www.rurdev .usda.gov 
    
For information about the Truth in Lending Act  and the Equal Credit
Opportunity Act contact:  Federal Reserve Board  20th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW  Washington, DC 20551  Or try their WWW
site: http://www.bog .frb.fed.us 
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