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.
Memo to Members & Partners Articles
NLIHC’s nonpartisan Our Homes, Our Votes campaign announced the Welcome to Vote Pledge, a joint declaration among affordable housing providers that are committed to registering and mobilizing their residents to vote, on National Voter Registration Day (Tuesday, September 20). The initial list of…
The Nonprofit Voter Empowerment Project (NVEP), a nonpartisan pledge campaign created by Independent Sector and Nonprofit VOTE, has released a resource guide with tools that can be used by nonprofit organizations to help increase voter engagement among members of underrepresented communities. The…
A new study from researchers at Boston University and the University of Georgia, “Who Represents the Renters?,” examines the extent to which renters are represented among public officials at the local, state, and federal levels of government relative to homeowners. Using property records and voter…
The Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022 webinar series features experts with frontline election experience to walk through every step of voter and candidate engagement activities and support housing organizations’ nonpartisan election efforts. The next webinar, “Early Voting and Vote-by-Mail,” will be held…