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
Presidential candidates Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and former Representative Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) have joined other Democratic presidential candidates in proposing bold plans to address the nation’s affordable housing crisis.
Released on October 10, Senator Bennet’s plan would build more…
More than 800 organizations have signed onto a national letter calling on the moderators of the fourth presidential debate to ask the candidates about their affordable housing solutions. The deadline for signing on is Tuesday, October 8! If your organization has not already done so, sign the letter…
Participate in the #OurHomesOurVotes2020 tweetstorm on Thursday, October 10 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET to urge the moderators of the next presidential debate to ask a question on affordable housing and to encourage candidates to talk about their affordable housing proposals at the nationally…
The next Democratic presidential debate will take place on October 15 in Westerville, Ohio. The NLIHC-led Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement project provides fact sheets of each candidates’ housing plans as well as a Democratic Debate Watch Guide for advocates to…