Every year for Sukkot we build a Sukkah, a temporary shelter that reminds us that the Jewish people have a great familiarity with what it means to have no permanent home.

It's an opportunity to remember that there are many people in our own community live with housing insecurity.  Many people live with the insecurity of not knowing whether they will be able to pay their rent or mortgage next month, or not knowing whether the building where they live will raise rents and they will be forced to leave their home.

JUFJ is taking on this problem through our Fair Purple Line campaign, protecting Langley Park residents who risk losing their homes or being priced out of their community as a result of the current draft of the Takoma Langley Crossroads development plan.  We are encouraging local congregations to hang a flyer connecting sukkot to our campaign.  Please feel free to share it with your friends and your congregation.

We encourage you to take this opportunity to remember organizations that are dedicated to helping those with housing insecurity, including theWashington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, Bread for the City, So Others Might Eat, National Low Income Housing Coalition, Jubilee Housing, Street Village,  and Legal Aid, among others.