Our Homes, Our Votes

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.

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Memo to Members & Partners Articles

Growing Voter and Candidate Support for Affordable Homes

Affordable homes are built as much with votes and ballots as with bricks and drywall: real change happens when voters support pro-affordable housing candidates and policies. In 2018, voters supported a wide range of candidates who made affordable housing priorities in their campaigns as well as…

Our Homes, Our Votes Provides Nonpartisan Voter Education Resources

With less than a month until the mid-term elections, NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Votes highlights resources on voter education. People vote when they feel informed and empowered to make good decisions. This includes knowing how to vote, where to vote, and what one needs to vote. It also means being…