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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Memo to Members & Partners Articles

Tenant Talk Volume 11, Issue 3: Policy Updates

NLIHC COVID-19 Policy Priorities  Please note that there might have been additional congressional action between the publication of this article and the date you are reading it. For the latest information, visit: https://bit.ly/2Rnuj4Z  Without action by Congress, 30 to 40 million…

Getting Out to Vote

Housing Providers Step Up to Help Renters Vote Successfully A coalition of housing providers throughout the country has come together under the Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 banner, committing to increasing voter registration and voter turnout among their residents. Renters face so many barriers to…

DNC & RNC Party Platforms

Affordable Housing Mentioned in Democratic & Republican Party Platforms  THE RECENTLY ADOPTED DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE 2020 PLATFORM AND THE PLATFORM APPROVED BY REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE IN 2020 BOTH ADDRESS HOUSING. THEIR APPROACHES TO SUPPORTING AFFORDABLE…

State Laws and Information

Voting Laws in your Own State One of the most significant barriers to voting is the wide variation in laws by state. Laws change from year to year, and people move from one state to another. And many fist-time voters have never interacted with their state’s voting laws. Because many voting laws…