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
During last week’s second round of Democratic debates, several presidential candidates talked about affordable housing solutions for the first time ever in a presidential debate. Eleven presidential candidates have released major plans or other proposals to address the housing…
NLIHC conducted a webinar for affordable housing advocates on July 31 about engaging voters and candidates in the upcoming elections on the issue of affordable housing as part of its nonpartisan Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 project.
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel…
NLIHC’s partner on Our Homes, Our Votes 2020 the Polk Country Housing Trust Fund and our Our Homes, Our Votes, Our Iowa project partnered with Habitat for Humanity on two “Women Build” events on July 31 and August 3, during which volunteers helped rehab a home in Des Moines, IA…
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) joined 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), and Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro in calling for expanding affordable housing…