Gen Z candidates in both parties aim to tackle high housing costs
Younger political candidates are increasingly focusing on the housing affordability crisis as a central platform issue. The article explores how high costs for rent and home ownership are impacting Gen Z voters across the political spectrum.
Why it matters
Housing affordability is a major economic driver influencing voter sentiment and political priorities in the current midterm cycle.
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — "My bus is running slightly behind," Olaleye Onikuyide texted ahead of our meeting at a coffee shop on West Hartford's main street. The 28-year-old Democrat running for Connecticut state representative still made it on time and said he loved riding public transit.
Family Amid cost-of-living stress, many parents are supporting children well into adulthood Onikuyide also lives with his parents, though he said that's by choice to save money, unlike the many young adults who can't afford to live on their own.
Still, as part of a generation that faces record-high housing unaffordability , he started obsessing years ago over how to make it cheaper. Now that the cripplingly high cost of both rent and homes has become an urgent national conversation, he likens it to being a fan of a niche music group before everyone else caught on.
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