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

Julián Castro Addresses Affordable Housing and Homelessness in New Hampshire

Presidential candidate and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro participated in an Our Homes, Our Votes, Our New Hampshire event on August 17 for an intimate policy conversation on affordable housing and homelessness and a tour of Cross Roads House, a homeless shelter in Portsmouth, NH. “I…

Sign Letter Calling for Affordable Housing in Next Presidential Debate

All presidential candidates should share what they will do to make homes affordable for the millions of households struggling to keep roofs over their heads or who have no homes at all. Add your organization to a national letter urging ABC, Univision, and the moderators of…

Senator Sanders Tours Skid Row, Reveals Parts of His Affordable Housing Plan

Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on August 6 visited Skid Row in Los Angeles and toured the nearby Star Apartments, a facility providing permanent supportive housing to over 100 formerly homeless individuals. He then held an “Affordable Housing Town Hall” in…