evidence: If elected, she’d follow in the footsteps of her sister Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat who represents Washington’s 7th Congressional District in Seattle and chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. [...] She said she would advocate investments in environmentally sustainable public housing like those proposed in the Green New Deal. The bill, introduced by Independent U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, would invest more than $200 billion over the next decade to make public housing in the U.S. energy efficient.