So apparently, rather than tweak the insane regulations that make San Francisco such a chronically unaffordable place to live, authorities there are doing...this:
As communities across the Bay Area push to create affordable teacher housing, the Milpitas Unified School District is trying out a different approach: asking parents to take in teachers priced out by soaring Silicon Valley rents.
Last school year, the district said it lost at least seven teachers who struggled to afford the area. The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Milpitas is now nearly $3,000 a month, a 15% spike since last September, according to rental listing site Zumper. That works out to roughly half the annual salary for early-career teachers in the district, who earned around $68,000 last year.
Since sending out its request online last week, the district said it has received 55 responses from families looking to rent out a room in their home.
Well, that's nice at least that families are willing to go for it. Still, San Francisco, I gotta say:
I mean, seriously. Is this problem so beyond the local city government that they have be reduced to pleading with local families to put up teachers for a year or more? How has it gotten to this point?
Incredibly, though the city has bungled this much, they're somehow bungling this, too:
"They want to be treated like the adult amazing professionals they are," [a mayor's office official] said. "Renting a room in someone's house doesn't feel like maintaining someone's dignity like our teachers and educators deserve."
Ooookay. So the city is begging parents to take the teachers in, then turning right around and complaining that living with the parents is undignified!
They keep this up and the teachers might just leave San Francisco altogether, and who could blame them!
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