These Young Politicians Want to Fix America’s Housing Problems NYT - Top Stories By: Kate Zernike 11 June 2026 at 13:47 A cohort of young Millennial and Gen Z politicians have centered their campaigns this year on housing costs, and the divide is more generational than partisan. © Sophie Park for The New York TimesDavid Morales, 27, a candidate for mayor of Providence, R.I., has made housing central to his pitch for “a city all our neighbors can afford.”