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> congresspeople sleep in their office i.e. are homeless because DC rent is high

any source for this? your link just mentions a representative who has bad credit, it never claims he is homeless.

It's in the second half of the article.

> Dozens of members of Congress have even turned their Capitol Hill offices into their makeshift apartments.

Of course, sometimes they're just weird and like it. Mitt Romney lives in a small apartment and only watches TV for fun and he's a multimillionaire.