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
A new article in the journal Politics & Society, “Eviction and Voter Turnout: The Political Consequences of Housing Instability,” examines the impact of evictions on voter turnout in the 2016 presidential election. The authors, Gillian Slee and Matthew Desmond, find increases in neighborhood…
NLIHC, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Housing Law Project (NHLP), and Demos sent a letter on December 14 urging HUD, the Treasury Department, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to protect and expand voting access for tenants in federally assisted properties.
The…
In elections held across the country on November 2, voters approved municipal ballot measures to invest resources in affordable housing and shelter services, establish rent-control ordinances, raise the minimum wage, and increase fees on short-term rentals. Voters also rejected ballot measures to…
NLIHC, the National Housing Law Project (NHLP), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Demos sent a letter to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge on September 21 requesting a meeting to provide recommendations for the department’s forthcoming plan to increase access to voting. President Biden issued…