{"id":105546,"date":"2022-12-10T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=105546"},"modified":"2022-12-10T21:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:23:14","slug":"relatable-millennial-congressman-elect-maxwell-frost-has-apartment-application-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=105546","title":{"rendered":"Relatable: Millennial Congressman Elect Maxwell Frost Has Apartment Application Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/maxwell-frost-apartment-rejected_n_63928d6ee4b015bb5739c716?utm_campaign=share_email&amp;ncid=other_email_o63gt2jcad4\" target=\"_blank\">HuffPo<\/a>: &#8220;Rep.-elect\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/maxwell-frost\" target=\"_blank\">Maxwell Alejandro Frost<\/a>\u00a0(D-Fla.), who will be the first Gen Z member of Congress, said Thursday that his application to rent a Washington, D.C., apartment was rejected due to his bad credit score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJust applied to an apartment in DC where I told the guy that my credit was really bad. He said I\u2019d be fine. Got denied, lost the apartment, and the application fee,\u201d Frost tweeted, referencing his work for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/impact\/topic\/uber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber<\/a>\u00a0to make ends meet. \u201cFor those asking, I have bad credit cause I ran up a lot of debt running for Congress for a year and a half. Didn\u2019t make enough money from Uber itself to pay for my living.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/maxwell-frost-gen-z-midterm-elec_n_63501334e4b0b7f89f5d055d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an October interview with HuffPost<\/a>, the young Democrat opened up about the financial struggles he faced as a candidate, including how he ran out of money early in his campaign and resorted to driving for Uber to pay his bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a young person who just doesn\u2019t have a lot of money, I\u2019ve been living literally paycheck to paycheck this entire year and at times didn\u2019t have money to feed myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frost said there needs to be more poor and working-class candidates in politics to achieve a better democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: &#8220;Rep.-elect\u00a0Maxwell Alejandro Frost\u00a0(D-Fla.), who will be the first Gen Z member of Congress, said Thursday that his application to rent a Washington, D.C., apartment was rejected due to his bad credit score. \u201cJust applied to an apartment in DC where I told the guy that my credit was really bad. He said I\u2019d be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105547,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105546\/revisions\/105547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}