California school properties could be converted into housing for educators

Source: KRON4 News

The California Department of Education has announced an initiative to turn land owned by local education agencies into housing for education workers. The department says local education agencies own roughly 75,000 acres of “developable land” that could be used to create over 2 million housing units across the state.

“We know that families across our state are impacted, from the homelessness crisis facing our urban areas, to the long commute times impacting families priced out of once-affordable neighborhoods, to the staffing crisis in schools whose educators can’t afford to live where they work,” said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond. The agency said a school district in San Mateo County recently saw success filling all its teaching vacancies after building a 122-unit housing project last year.