The Washington Post. The Buttigiegs live in a one-bedroom apartment in an upscale building in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, where their rent comes out to about $3,000 a month because they signed a long-term lease that gave them a couple months free.“We couldn’t afford the one-bedroom-plus-den,” Chasten Buttigieg said.
And that’s on the Transportation secretary’s annual salary of $221,400. Monthly rents for two-bedroom apartments in the building are $5,650 and up.“We’re doing fine for ourselves, and [yet] the city is almost unaffordable,” he told the Post.