Been a renter since moving out of mom’s house in 1989? Uhhh no. And throw in a race chip for some credo.
As a solution, Ybarra explained her in-laws helped them with a down payment on a house “so that our mortgage was affordable.” “This was the first time I was confronted by housing prices coupled with the responsibilities of home ownership,” Ybarra said, adding that she and her husband were “very lucky that we were able to buy when we did.” She credited her housing situation on “White privilege.” But in a social media post about two weeks ago touting her endorsement from a renters’ group, Ybarra, 53, seemed to contradict what she wrote in the book. “I’ve been a renter since I moved out of my mom’s house in 1989,” she said. “I’ve moved 20 times in 35 years.”