Some schools build affordable housing to retain teachers
“’It’s important to students to know that their teachers live in the same communities as them, shop at the same stores,’ said Jones-Luke, who is Black. ‘They realize the teachers aren’t out of touch because we live in the same ’hood. I know what’s going on in the ’hood just as much as they do.’
In California, the 2016 study found only 17% of homes were affordable on the average state teacher salary of roughly $74,000, down from 30% in 2012. The average teacher could afford 0.2% of homes in San Francisco and none in Silicon Valley, where the median sales price of a home was $1.5 million in June.”