NLIHC’s Our Homes, Our Votes campaign sent identical, nonpartisan letters to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Republican National Committee (RNC) leadership on June 13, urging each party to make the housing needs of the lowest-income renters a central pillar of its 2024 platform. The letters to the DNC and RNC build upon the Our Homes, Our Votes campaign’s efforts to raise the profile of housing as an election issue and encourage candidates to prioritize the needs of the lowest-income renters. The letter to the DNC can be found here and the letter to the RNC here.
The RNC and DNC will adopt their 2024 party platforms at the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention, which will take place on July 15-18 and August 19-22, respectively.
The letters provide background information on the nation’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis and urge each party to adopt a 2024 policy platform that commits to bridging the gap between incomes and housing costs, expanding and preserving the supply of deeply affordable rental homes, providing emergency rental assistance to stabilize families in crisis, strengthening and enforcing renter protections, advancing evidence-based solutions to homelessness, and fixing our country’s broken disaster recovery system.
To learn more about the Our Homes, Our Votes campaign and its efforts to raise the profile of low-income housing as an election issue, visit: www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/candidate-engagement