Our Homes, Our Votes is NLIHC’s nonpartisan campaign to increase voter participation among low-income renters and to educate candidates about housing solutions. The Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022 webinar series will feature experts with frontline election experience who will walk through every step of voter and candidate engagement activities and offer support for housing organizations’ nonpartisan election efforts. Join the kickoff webinar today (Monday, April 4) at 2:30 pm ET to learn more about the campaign.
The inaugural Our Homes, Our Votes: 2022 webinar will highlight the campaign’s achievements during past election cycles, the connections between political participation and housing justice, and the ways housing advocates can get involved this year. The webinar will feature opening remarks from NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel; insights into state-level election organizing from Georgia Advancing Communities Together (Georgia ACT) President and CEO Dr. Bambie Hayes-Brown; an overview of the campaign’s communications strategy from NLIHC Senior Director of Media Relations and Communications Jen Butler; a discussion of groundbreaking research on evictions and voter turnout from Gillian Slee at Eviction Lab; and a special message from Representative Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-IL) about the “Our Homes, Our Votes Act” (H.R. 2215).
Our Homes, Our Votes webinars will take place on Mondays from 2:30 to 3:30 pm ET and will occur on a biweekly basis in rotation with the National Call on the HoUSed: Universal, Stable, Affordable Housing campaign. The webinars will run until the week that follows the 2022 midterm elections. The full webinar schedule can be found here, and registration for the webinar series can be found here.