Oct 5 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday urged

U.S. mortgage financing companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to

"get Big Homebuilders going," saying without providing evidence

that U.S. builders were "sitting on 2 Million empty lots, a

RECORD."

It was unclear exactly what action Trump expected builders

or the mortgage giants to take. Trump met in August with top

U.S. bank executives to discuss his administration's plans to

privatize the finance firms, which guarantee over half the

nation's mortgages and have been under federal conservatorship

since the 2008 financial crisis.