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Am Inds THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 20, 1999 Ms. Mary Ellen Boyd Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO 4th Floor 1155 15th Street NW Washington, DC 20005 Dear Ms Boyd: Enclosed please find information which my office recently received regarding Shared Visions: The Pine Ridge Building Summit. Shared Visions is a new program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development which strives to increase home ownership for Native Americans. It aims to do so by: facilitating production and delivery of housing, providing mortgage assistance, organizing a Citizens Volunteer Corps to build and renovate reservation homes, and encouraging partnerships between government, private, and nonprofit agencies to aid the cause. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Lakota Tribe of South Dakota has been chosen as the pilot location to implement the Shared Visions program through a building summit July 30th to August 7th, 1999. It occurred to me that your organization may be interested in this program. Please review the enclosed information. If you have any further questions or your organization is interested in participating, please contact my office. Sincerely, Karen Kareee A. Tramontano Assistant to the President Counselor to the Chief of Staff CC: Karen Hinton KAT:eak