Maria Teresa Kumar: Harris Should Talk More About Her Plan for 3 Million Affordable Housing Units to Appeal to Latino Voters

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KUMAR: “So, among — regardless of age and how long they’ve been in this country, whether they were first, second, third generation, Chris, alarmingly, what we saw was the rent is too damn high, it was too expensive. We were listening to a young college person say, I was paying $700 in rent. In the last three years, I went from having to pay $700 to $1,200, but my wages have not gone up. That’s significant. So one of the things that we are really tracking is what is the housing issue that Kamala Harris is going to tackle. I know that she has spoken about providing three million — three million new affordable housing units in the event that she gets elected. That needs to be talked about a lot more. But it really is this idea that they can’t make ends meet. And it is something that is, yes, related to inflation, but it means how do I balance the checkbook. And I do think that it was a marginal — it was markedly different there than what we saw in Pennsylvania, much to my surprise.”