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

Presidential Candidate Buttigieg Releases Affordable Housing Plan

Mayor Pete Buttigieg joins other Democratic presidential candidates in releasing bold plans to address the nation’s affordable housing crisis. All those who have run for the Democratic nomination, with the exception of former Vice President Joe Biden, have released affordable housing plans, most…

Affordable Housing Is Key Election Issue in the Primaries

NLIHC’s nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement project Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 and our more than 1,000 partners around the country have worked to raise the profile of affordable housing and homelessness in the presidential elections. The effort has paid off!  All but one of the…