Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Still Cannot Live In Washington DC

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Although Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made history by becoming the youngest woman to reach the United States Congress, the elected congresswoman, 29, still suffers the ravages of most of the citizens of her district: How to pay the rent ?

Ocasio-Cortez, of Puerto Rican blood, just a year ago was working in a small restaurant in downtown Manhattan, but after his achievement he will have to move to Washington DC, to exercise his new position representing District 14 of New York State..

Just because your political career has skyrocketed doesn't mean you're making money, so it recently revealed that you still can't rent an apartment in the American capital.

These are the reasons Ocasio-Cortez revealed to the New York Times:

• - Your transition period will be "very unusual, because I really cannot accept a salary."
• - “I have three months without salary before being a member of Congress. So how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real."

And with good reason, then, the young Latina, who now shares an apartment in the Bronx area with her partner, as reported by Yahoo, has dedicated the last months of her life to her political campaign and has not reflected "fixed income" by a company, which is also one of the requirements for real estate sites in major cities in the United States.

According to the real estate website Zillow, the average rent in Washington DC is a one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx Parkchester neighborhood with your partner.

Housing affordability is a mainstay of Ocasio-Cortez's political platform and was a key issue in his main campaign against the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Joe Crowley.

New York 14 is one of the last working-class congressional districts in New York City. These communities are seeing the cost of living increase very quickly: Over the past three years or so, the average price of a two-bedroom apartment in New York 14 has increased 80 percent,”he told Vogue in June. "Our incomes certainly aren't increasing 80 percent to make up for that, and what it's doing is a wave of aggressive economic displacement from the communities that have always been here."

According to Ocasio-Cortez, her experiences as a member of the working class are what make her best suited to represent her constituents, as the situation in her district is a reality for Americans across the country.

"How can you legislate a better life for working people if you have never been a working person?" Is the question asked by Ocasio-Cortez.

From the perspective of a citizen who has had to "live with the anxiety of not having health insurance" and the "existential fear" that she herself has experienced, Ocasio-Cortez plans to continue making history.