The youngest member of Congress was thrilled to be moving to the nation’s capital to take up his new post for the Florida people in the House of Representatives.

First things first: find a place to live.

Maxwell Frost (D), 25, found affordable housing in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington DC. So he filled out the questionnaire, paid the $50 application fee, and waited for the routine credit check.

But unfortunately, Frost’s credit rating was too low to qualify for renting the apartment.

Frost championed progressive issues such as legalizing recreational marijuana, Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, tightening gun laws and introducing national protections for renters and curbing real estate speculation to address housing affordability.

During his year-and-a-half campaign, he quit his full-time job and drove an Uber to make some money, but it wasn’t enough to keep him out of credit card debt.

“It’s sad. It’s a well-known problem, particularly among members of the working class. It’s definitely a problem,” Frost said of the rigors of running for public office. Then he went to Twitter.

Frost told NPR that he posted his tweet in a moment of frustration, but also to highlight the issue of affordability and accessibility in DC’s political world for people not of wealth.

According to ZillowThe median rent for a small apartment in DC starts at $2,600 — $350 more than last year’s average. The lack of affordable rental housing in major cities is a nationwide concern, with prices up 15% year-on-year, Redfin reported RDFNthe recently announced it would lay off 13% of its staff, suggesting the housing crisis will get worse before it improves.

Eventually, once Frost gets his $170,000 congressional salary, he can afford an apartment.

“In two years my…