September 2017 - Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

JCUA’s Community Ventures Program Provides Loan to Warren Apartments

September 26, 2017

| By Hannah Wolod

JCUA’s newest CVP zero-interest loan will help cover the predevelopment costs associated with the construction of Warren Apartments. Consisting of 75 units of mixed-income housing, this project complements the 89 units of supportive housing at neighboring Harvest Commons (renovated by Heartland in 2013), and addresses the great need for affordable workforce housing in the rapidly gentrifying …

The Privilege Of Feeling At Home

September 25, 2017

| By Anna Rubin

Categories: Community Issues, Immigrant Rights, Immigration Reform, JCUA Campaigns, JCUA Project and Campaign Endorsements, Other

Returning to JCUA feels like coming home. JCUA for me is a group of people I care deeply about, a vision for the world I try to enact every day, and a set of values I aspire to embody. From the d’var Torah at our weekly staff meeting, to calling on our shared heritage to …

L’Shanah Tova from JCUA

September 20, 2017

| By Hannah Wolod

Categories: Jewish Holidays

If there is a single Jewish holiday that is awake up call, it is Rosh Hashanah. In the Torah it is Yom Teruah – a “day of shouting”. As we blow the shofar we express the emotions involved in standing in a spotlight of judgement on the cusp of a new year. We start and end with the …

JCUA Condemns Trump’s DACA Decision

September 5, 2017

| By Hannah Wolod

Categories: JCUA Statement

JCUA expresses outrage and condemnation of the executive order announced today that repeals Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA was instituted by President Obama in reaction to years of failed immigration policy, giving many young people who had spent most of their lives in the U.S. legal protections and hope for the future. We …