By Diana Lambert, EdSource, February 28, 2020
In a region with the largest disparity between teacher pay and housing costs in California, a Bay Area school district is the first in the nation to build affordable employee housing funded exclusively through a bond passed by local taxpayers.
The Jefferson Union High School District in Daly City recently broke ground on the 122-unit housing project, which will be financed by a $33 million general obligation bond passed by voters in 2018.
At the time, the move by the school district was unprecedented. But on March 3 four more school districts — Soledad Unified in Monterey County, East Side Union High School District in Santa Clara County, Patterson Joint Unified School District in Stanislaus County and Chula Vista Elementary School District in San Diego County — will follow Jefferson Union’s lead and ask California voters to tax themselves to pay for teacher housing through a general obligation bond.
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