“This ain’t meant for people who don’t already have money.”

Maxwell Frost, Congress’ first elected Generation Z lawmaker, regarding his denied application, and lost application fee, to rent an apartment in Washington, D.C., due to his low credit. Frost isn’t the first Congressmember to struggle with the housing search; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also voiced the issue when she was first elected in 2018. The median rent in Washington, D.C., is $2,600 a month, up 15 percent from a year ago. (NPR — Dec. 9, 2022)