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
Registration is open for NLIHC’s 15-month “Third Thursdays at Three” webinar and podcast series on nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement, Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020. The second webinar will be held on October 17 at 3:00 p.m. ET, focusing on planning a strong voter-engagement campaign for…
The first episode of the 15-month webinar and podcast series “Our Homes, Our Votes 2020: Third Thursdays at Three” is now available at www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/webinars. The webinar originally broadcast on September 19. The topic for the first presentation was legal considerations for 501(c…
With the introduction of his new “Housing for All” plan, Senator Bernie Sanders joins several other Democratic presidential candidates in proposing bold plans to address the affordable housing crisis. Senator Sanders’s plan would build millions more affordable homes, reinvest in our public housing…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel joined 2020 presidential candidate and former U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) on September 17 for an Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 meeting at the Downtown Women’s Shelter on Skid Row, the epicenter of the Los Angeles homelessness crisis. During the…