Want to know if you live in a healthy community? Follow the money.

In healthy communities, one resident gets paid and then has the opportunity to pay his neighbors for goods and services that are a normal part of everyday living.

In unhealthy neighborhoods, capital enters the neighborhood in the form of a resident's paycheck, but those dollars leave the community almost instantly as residents have to leave the neighborhood to purchase essential goods and services and pay rent to landlords who live outside our community.

Metanoia's efforts at housing and economic development seek to create a cycle of capital where community residents can either pay themselves through their mortgage payment or purchase goods and services within their own community. We know the more times we can get a dollar to circulate in our neighborhood the healthier our community becomes.