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
Voter turnout among low-income residents and renters is key to advancing affordable housing solutions—and a new study by Nonprofit Vote confirms the critical role that nonprofits play in turning out voters to the polls. The report, Engaging New Voters: 2018, found voters contacted by nonprofits are…
After decades of chronic underinvestment by Congress, it is remarkable the degree to which presidential hopefuls continue using their platforms to elevate awareness about the housing crisis for the lowest-income people and to advance solutions. Presidential candidates and members of Congress are…
NLIHC has launched Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020, a non-partisan project to urge presidential candidates to address the affordable housing crisis and its solutions and to engage more low-income renters in voting. Initially focusing on the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, NLIHC will…
NLIHC state partner Housing Action New Hampshire (Housing Action NH) and NLIHC together launched the nonpartisan Our Homes, Our Votes, Our New Hampshire project on May 16. Through this initiative NLIHC and Housing Action NH will collaborate to elevate the affordable housing crisis and its solutions…