The Ad Council, in partnership with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, has launched a national public service announcement (PSA) campaign to encourage homeowners struggling with their mortgage payments to learn about the Making Home Affordable Program.

The PSAs direct homeowners to visit MakingHomeAffordable.gov or call the Homeowner’s HOPE hotline (1-888-995-HOPE) to see if they might be eligible for assistance and to understand options they may have to avoid foreclosure.

Web pages at VHFA.org are now available in more than 50 languages — from Afrikaans to Yiddish — thanks to Google's free translation service.

Select a language from the dropdown menu at the bottom of any page to see the page translated into the language of your choice.

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Last Thursday, more than 100 people gathered at The Cascades at Winooski Falls to celebrate Mobius Appreciation Night, a gathering of individuals from Chittenden County involved with mentoring.

The event, sponsored by The Cascades, was an example of business and non-profit communities coming together to help children succeed through mentoring.

Statistical research confirms unaffordable housing has broad impacts for local economies.

In the recent report “Unaffordable Housing and Employment Growth,” researchers at the New England Public Policy Center explain incremental increases in housing unaffordability reduce employment growth in U.S. metropolitan areas and counties and for all cities in California.

The results “turn out to be remarkably consistent,” the report concludes.