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
As she attends presidential town halls throughout Iowa, Lauren Johnson from the Polk County Housing Trust Fund finds affordable housing is top-of-mind for voters. Voters want to know where the candidates stand on solutions to the affordable housing crisis in their state – often being one of the…
Advocates and voters took affordable housing into the voting booth in 2018, passing many important ballot measures that increase funding for affordable housing, implement tenant protections, and enact other housing-related reforms. NLIHC has released a new analysis of the 2018 affordable housing…
At a CNN Town Hall on April 11, 2019, former HUD Secretary and 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro called for a strong investment in affordable housing. “I bet you that if we went through the debate transcripts of the last 40 or 50 years,” said Mr. Castro, “Democrat and Republican debates,…
America’s affordable housing crisis has become a major 2020 campaign issue and is being addressed by presidential candidates in an unprecedented way. They are talking about the crisis and their proposals to address it at their launch events, on campaign stops, and on nationally televised town halls…