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 candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) held a roundtable on affordable housing issues on July 26 in Iowa City, IA at the Cross Park Place, a permanent supportive housing complex. Cross Park Place is the first affordable housing project to be developed in the state of Iowa…
Former HUD Secretary and 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro issued a blueprint of proposals to support Indigenous communities that includes provisions to address affordable housing. In announcing his plan, Secretary Castro spoke about his experience visiting the Pine Ridge Reservation in…
Former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden released a “Plan for Strengthening America’s Commitment to Justice” which sets a national goal of ensuring 100% of formerly incarcerated individuals have housing upon reentry.
The plan states: “If incarcerated individuals do not find…
NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement effort is offering NLIHC members and partners a webinar, Let’s Get It Started, on July 31 at 1:00 p.m. ET. The session will provide an overview of the Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020 project and what you can do to…