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[NMA Blog | Housing and Community Development News ](https://blog.nanmckay.com)

# [Housing and community news](https://blog.nanmckay.com/20181010)

 Written by [NMA](https://blog.nanmckay.com/author/nanmckay) | October 10, 2018

## What we're reading now: The latest housing reports and analysis

The Atlantic: [Elizabeth Warren's ambitious fix for America's housing crisis](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/elizabeth-warrens-fix-americas-housing-crisis/571210/)

Brookings: [It's a dark time for renters](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/09/27/the-renters-strike-back/)

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: [Renters' incomes still lagging behind housing costs](https://www.cbpp.org/blog/census-renters-incomes-still-lagging-behind-housing-costs)

Center for Community Progress: [Building equitable communities takes systems reform](https://www.communityprogress.net/blog/reforming-systems-fostering-collaboration-building-community-wealth-building-equitable-communities)

Center for Study of Social Policy: [Comment period begins today for public charge rule](https://www.cssp.org/media-center/blog/comment-period-begins-today-for-public-charge-rule-that-threatens-immigrant-communities)

CityLab: [Why affordable housing isn't more affordable](https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/09/why-affordable-housing-isnt-more-affordable/569650)

National Association of Counties: [Congress approves major disaster reform bill](https://www.naco.org/blog/congress-approves-major-disaster-reform-bill)

National League of Cities: [Cities leading on fair housing](https://citiesspeak.org/2018/10/01/cities-leading-on-fair-housing/)

National Low Income Housing Coalition: [Congress passes stopgap funding for HUD](http://nlihc.org/article/congress-passes-stopgap-funding-hud-and-department-agriculture)

New York Times: [Along the Carolinas coast, entire neighborhoods remain submerged](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/hurricane-florence-flooding-carolinas.html)

Shelterforce: [30 years of reporting on the state of the nation's housing](https://shelterforce.org/2018/10/03/same-challenges-bigger-numbers-30-years-of-reporting-on-the-state-of-the-nations-housing/)

Urban Institute: [Rural communities need more affordable rental housing](https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/rural-communities-need-more-affordable-rental-housing)

Urban Land: [2 developers share their path to transformational projects](https://urbanland.uli.org/development-business/two-developers-share-their-path-to-transformational-projects/)

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