🧵Across the country, housing was on the ballot in this election: @NLIHC's @ourhomesvotes campaign tracked 100+ housing & homelessness ballot measures! Let's celebrate these victories for housing justice, and congratulate the organizers who made them possible.

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The @OurHomesVotes ballot measures report is hot off the press! ⬇️. Learn how state & local resources for affordable homes, tenant protections, zoning/land use, and homelessness fared at the ballot box in November — and what advocates can learn from successful campaigns. 🗳️🏠✅.

This Thanksgiving season, I’m grateful for the long-awaited opening of the Aston! . It was an honor to attend the Aston’s ribbon-cutting with DC leaders & community members. As of yesterday, 25 individuals had moved into the Aston, with 25 more anticipated before the holiday.

In Camden, ME, voters overwhelmingly (77%) approved a zoning change that will allow for the conversion of a schoolhouse into an apartment building with residences on the ground floor, paving the way for new affordable homes for teachers.

CO towns also voted to facilitate housing development: Snowmass voters approved a 79-unit workforce housing project. Chaffee County voters authorized the housing authority to maintain revenues that allow it to proceed with a mixed-use development including transitional housing.

Voters in Eureka, CA, rejected Measure F, which would have required that new affordable housing developments on downtown city-owned parking lots include enough parking spots to replace those lost to construction, potentially making housing development too costly to be feasible.

San Mateo passed Measure T, which will increase height and density limits in 10 areas, including neighborhoods near Caltrain stations. More than 90% of voters in Yorba Linda supported Measure JJ, which will zone the city to accommodate an additional 1,900 homes.

California voters passed a handful of measures to facilitate affordable housing development. In Oroville, voters supported a measure that allows the Butte County Housing Authority to develop 18 deeply affordable homes.

Santa Barbara, CA, passed Measure I, a half-cent sales tax increase to fund local programs including the city’s Housing Trust Fund & other initiatives to improve housing affordability and address homelessness.

Berkeley, CA, approved Measure W, which amends the city’s existing property transfer tax to create a four-tier structure that will raise an additional $2 to $4 million annually for homeless services. Measure W also makes the property transfer tax permanent.

Voters in East Palo Alto, CA, overwhelmingly approved Measure JJ, which will allocate funds from an existing 2.5% parcel tax to fund rental assistance for tenants & other housing support. The tax will provide an estimated $1.45mil annually.

Mountain View, CA, overwhelmingly voted (71.8%) to increase the transfer tax on high-value real estate (above $6mil). The revenues will be dedicated to local services including affordable housing, 911 emergency response, and street repairs.

Voters in Aspen, CO, supported two separate measures to extend its 1% real estate transfer tax and 0.45% sales tax, both of which provide revenues for affordable housing programs.

Pitkin County, CO, passed a property tax increase that will generate an estimated $8.5mil annually for affordable housing (including acquisition, construction, and conversion of units into deed-restricted affordable housing), mental health care, and senior services.

Montrose, CO, voted to raise its hotel room tax from 0.9% to 6% to fund affordable housing, childcare & other projects to mitigate tourism impact. Mt. Crusted Butte, CO, voted to raise its lodging tax from 2.9% to 4.9%, with revenues to be invested in community housing projects.

@NLIHC @OurHomesVotes @HomesRI @ResidentsUnited @SCANPH Avon, CO, approved a 4% use tax on construction materials, which will raise an estimated $4 million for community housing projects.

@NLIHC @OurHomesVotes @HomesRI @ResidentsUnited @SCANPH Voters in Lawrence, KS approved a half-cent sales tax increase, with the revenues to be divided between affordable housing projects and emergency shelter/homelessness services. The tax is anticipated to raise about $2.5mil annually.

@NLIHC @OurHomesVotes @HomesRI @ResidentsUnited @SCANPH Ingham County, MI, passed a four-year property tax increase to support its Housing Trust Fund, replacing federal ARPA dollars used to establish the fund. The revenues will be used for affordable housing development, downpayment assistance, and programs for unhoused residents.

@NLIHC @OurHomesVotes @HomesRI @ResidentsUnited @SCANPH Voters in St. Louis, MO, overwhelmingly supported (69%) Proposition S, a new 3% hotel tax that will dedicate at least half of its proceeds to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and other affordable housing initiatives.

@NLIHC @OurHomesVotes @HomesRI @ResidentsUnited @SCANPH Orange County, FL, overwhelmingly supported (74%) a charter amendment that enshrines the existence of the county’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.