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
This is a critical time for our housing movement and our country, when we face both extraordinary challenges and exhilarating possibilities. Despite the challenges – maybe because of them - I’ve never felt so hopeful, or so certain that we will achieve big, positive change together. In fact, we…
Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020, NLIHC’s non-partisan candidate and voter engagement project, continues to monitor all 2020 presidential candidates’ statements and proposals on affordable housing and the needs of the lowest-income people in America. While advocates were disappointed the first nationally…
Presidential candidates are increasingly focused on affordable housing, and this primary season has featured more proposals to address the nation’s housing affordability crisis than any before. Most recently, Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro joined other presidential hopefuls, including Senators…
Our Homes, Our Votes, Our Iowa, a nonpartisan candidate-engagement partnership between NLIHC and the Polk County Housing Trust Fund, attracted national attention on June 15 with its first town hall event featuring presidential candidate and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro. The town hall was co-…