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Our Homes, Our Votes is National Low Income Housing Coalition’s (NLIHC) 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 features experts with frontline election experience to walk through every step of voter and candidate engagement activities and support housing organizations’ nonpartisan election efforts. Join this session to learn about the role of tenant organizers in registering and mobilizing voters!

Tenant and resident leaders play a pivotal role in mobilizing their communities to vote. The upcoming webinar will address

1. Ideas for developing messaging that builds trust and generates enthusiasm about participating in the political process

2. Successful tactics for reaching first-time voters

3. Ways to ensure that low-income renters have the resources and information they need to vote, and

4. Methods for organizing residents to become leaders in their own communities’ election engagement efforts.

Abby Ng, policy and communications coordinator, and Genesis Aquino, executive director at Tenants & Neighbors, will discuss voter engagement and tenant organizing in New York. Sarah Saadian, senior vice president for public policy and field organizing at NLIHC, will provide an update on provisions to increase civic engagement among HUD tenants included in the House of Representatives’ proposed spending bill. Sidney Betancourt, housing advocacy organizer at NLIHC, will share information about the upcoming edition of NLIHC’s Tenant Talk magazine, which will focus on voter and candidate engagement.

Agenda

• Tenant Organizing and Election Efforts

  • Abby Ng, policy and communications coordinator, Tenants & Neighbors

  • Genesis Aquino, executive director, Tenants & Neighbors

• Civic Engagement Proposal in House Appropriations Bill

  • Sarah Saadian, senior vice president for public policy and field organizing, NLIHC

• Sign Up for Tenant Talk Publication!

  • Sidney Betancourt, housing advocacy organizer, NLIHC