The six part Our Homes, Our Votes webinar series on non-partisan voter engagement concluded on August 21, and recordings and PowerPoint slides for each webinar are now available on the Our Homes, Our Votes website at: https://bit.ly/2vNL3a2
More than 100 advocates participated in each webinar and learned how they and their organizations can get involved in nonpartisan election efforts this fall and beyond. Webinars featured experts from such organizations as the Alliance for Justice, the National Coalition for the Homeless, Housing California, NLIHC, and others. Presenters discussed legal considerations nonprofit organizations should consider, strategies for registering low income renters and homeless voters, how to locate low income voters as part of a larger voter mobilization strategy, and how to interact with both candidates and voters in a nonpartisan manner.
The Our Homes, Our Votes webinar series and website provide an array of key information, strategies, plans, model templates, and tools for nonpartisan voter registration, education, and mobilization, as well as candidate engagement. The project’s ultimate goal is to ensure candidates for public office address issues of homelessness and affordable housing and commit to real solutions. Renters, especially low income renters, are underrepresented among voters. To ensure low income housing interests are a priority for elected representatives, it is critical that organizations engage these renters and other low income people in the voting process.
NLIHC thanks our Our Homes, Our Votes local, state, and national partners and recognizes their impressive leadership on engaging low income residents in voting. We encourage our partners to share tools and strategies with us at [email protected] and to continue to learn from one another. NLIHC is committed to supporting advocates in this critically important nonpartisan civic engagement work in 2018 and beyond.
Please continue to visit the Our Homes, Our Votes website and share all of the available tools and strategies with your network. We look forward to continued advocacy as we work together to build more affordable housing with our ballots.