Make Your Residents' Voices Heard
- To make a Resident Testimony video advocating for the Housing Credit, here are sample points of discussion for a 30-120 second video.
- Help your residents tell their stories! You can use these resident testimony videos on our website as a guide.
- Make sure the resident introduces themselves, the city that they live in, and that they mention they live in a Housing Credit affordable housing property.
- How has the housing path provided them with economic opportunity? Rent price, new amenities in their home and the building, access to local services such as food pantries and healthcare facilities.
- You could also ask them about something they like to do, such as spending time with their family / pets or fun activities they participate in, and how housing stability makes it easier to enjoy life.
- What are they thinking about the future, and how will affordable housing help them get there? “The rent savings and support that I receive from living in affordable housing makes it easier for me to succeed at my job / save money for my family / invest in my future.”
- Bring it back to the Housing Credit: “These benefits are thanks to the Housing Credit, the primary way to ensure access to affordable housing.” “Expanding the Housing Credit will create [number in the fact sheet] additional affordable homes in [your state / district] in the next ten years.”
- Make sure in some way to definitely talk about how the Housing Credit is the primary way of making sure people achieve the housing security they need!
- End all videos by asking leaders in Congress to continue to expand and strengthen the Housing Credit for the future of this resident’s friends and neighbors.