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Fixing CA's housing and public transit issues is perhaps beyond the remit of the Milpitas school district. Paying what might look like an absurd salary to teach
by linksnapzz 4y ago
Fixing CA's housing and public transit issues is perhaps beyond the remit of the Milpitas school district. Paying what might look like an absurd salary to teachers (especially if you come from a cheaper area) to cover their housing is at least a plausible solution, if the employer can swing it.
I wonder if it might be possible for the municipality to use eminent domain + a bond measure to acquire a parcel. This could be developed into condos for cops & teachers, owned by the city and rented at a subsidized rate to public employees for the term of their employment + six months.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoAlternatively, take the least desired city owned parcel and upzone it; gov services in the lower floors, housing in the upper floors. Build as high as economically reasonable. I very much like your idea by the way! Complex problems occasionally require creative solutions.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoCheck this out! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teacher-shortage-california-low-cost-apartments/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teacher-shortage-california-low... > "There's been times when we didn't have a math teacher, or we didn't have a language teacher," Megan Carey, the principal of Terra Nova High School, located just south of San Francisco, told CBS News. > The reason? "High cost of living — 100%!" she said. > Now, her school district is trying something new: affordable housing on school property. It's a 122-unit apartment complex that was approved by local voters and built for teachers and staff on property owned by the Jefferson Union High School District.