HUD last week published its proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which it said is intended to offer “clearer guidance” to states and local governments to help them improve affordable housing choices in their community.

CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., reported 3.7% of mortgages were in some stage of delinquency in October, an 0.4 percentage point decline from a year ago.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency released its quarterly Foreclosure Prevention and Refinance Report, showing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 26,475 foreclosure prevention actions in the third quarter, bringing the total number of foreclosure prevention actions to 4.38 million since September 2008.