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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.

Recent New York City-based research demonstrates residents of tax credit-financed apartments pay $500 less than monthly market rents, more than doubling the discretionary income available to each household for other necessities. The June 2010 report shows these income savings boost local purchasing power, "contributing to retail vitality of the neighborhood."