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
On Election Day, registered voters will cast their ballots, and it is critical that they know their rights when head go to the polls. Voters should: 1) make a plan to vote; 2) be in line before the polls close; 3) know their polling location; 4) bring identification if required; and 5) reach out if…
Looking for a way to be involved in the upcoming elections? Hoping that low-income renters have a strong turnout in early voting and on Election Day? Sign-up to volunteer as a phone-banker to call subsidized renters who live in properties owned or managed by participants in the Housing Providers…
Vote Early Day 2020, a national initiative to encourage early voting, is on Saturday, October 24. Organizations can register to be partners for Vote Early Day 2020 by filling out an online commitment form. Free swag will be sent to the mailing address provided.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis,…
NLIHC hosted a webinar, “Election Day! Getting Out the Vote,” on October 15 as part of the “Third Thursdays at Three” Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 webinar series. The session explored the most effective Election Day get-out-the-vote practices, such as coordinating rides to the polls, hosting “walk…