Our Homes, Our Votes

Our Homes, Our Votes is a nonpartisan campaign to register, educate, and mobilize low-income renters and affordable housing advocates to vote. Renters, especially low-income renters, are underrepresented among voters. To build the political will for housing solutions, it is critical that organizations that work directly with low-income renters—including nonprofits, housing providers, and tenant associations—mobilize renters and other low-income people to vote.

Through this campaign, marginalized communities are able to access an array of targeted resources such as a voter and candidate engagement toolkit, voter registration information, ways to get involved with other housing justice advocates in your area, and much more!

Affordable homes are built with ballots every bit as much as they are built with bricks and drywall.

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Apply for the Our Homes, Our Votes Tenant Fellowship by Friday, April 18!

NLIHC’s first-ever Our Homes, Our Votes Tenant Fellowship will convene 20 tenant and resident leaders committed to the mission of NLIHC’s nonpartisan Our Homes, Our Votes campaign: to increase voter turnout among low-income renters and elevate housing as an election issue. Applications are due this…

Apply for the Our Homes, Our Votes Tenant Fellowship!

NLIHC’s first-ever Our Homes, Our Votes Tenant Fellowship will convene 20 tenant and resident leaders committed to the mission of NLIHC’s nonpartisan Our Homes, Our Votes campaign to increase voter turnout among low-income renters and elevate housing as an election issue. Applications are due…

Seattle Voters Approve Ballot Initiative to Fund Social Housing Developer

Voters in Seattle, WA, approved a ballot initiative that will fund the Seattle Social Housing Developer with revenues from a new payroll tax. The special election, which took place Tuesday, February 11, first asked voters whether the city should use payroll tax revenues to fund social housing…

NLIHC Releases "Housing and Homelessness on the Ballot: November 2024”

NLIHC’s nonpartisan Our Homes, Our Votes campaign released on December 12, the latest edition of its biennial ballot measures report. The new report, Housing and Homelessness on the Ballot: November 2024, summarizes nearly 100 state and local ballot measures addressing affordable housing and…