Maria Isabel Macias has had the same dream since she moved to Las Vegas more than a decade ago.
“I want to own a home,” said the 58-year-old who was recently out election canvassing in North Las Vegas for the Culinary Union. “That is the dream, that is the American dream.”
But things haven’t gone according to plan, as Macias has had to move in with her sister, and the cook who works at Caesars Palace said every year her dream gets farther and farther away and her monthly expenses are not keeping up with her wages. She now feels like she might always be stuck renting and not building wealth through a mortgage payment.
“Everything has gone up, water, garbage, electricity,” she said. “It’s just getting harder and harder all the time.”
Macias said she’s voting for Democrat Kamala Harris and one of the main reasons is Harris’ plan to offer first-time homebuyers a $25,000 down payment support for 400,000 Americans so she can get into the housing market.