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Campus Safety Magazine, Amy Rock

A Jefferson Union High School District official says building an affordable housing complex for staff has reduced turnover to near zero.

KTVU FOX 2, Amanda Quintana

Teachers in Pacifica will soon have access to brand-new housing at the site of a former elementary school…The developer – Brookwood Partners – specializes in using school district properties that are underutilized and turning them into housing…

KQED, Adhiti Bandlamudi

School districts in the Peninsula and the South Bay look likely get funding to build teacher housing, according to early returns…

CalMatters, Carolyn Jones

In a flurry of recent legislation and initiatives, California officials are pushing school districts to convert their surplus property into housing for teachers, school staff and even students and families. Some districts have already started; now the state wants every district to become a landlord…

Accesswire

Brookwood Partners, a leading real estate development advisory firm, is re-envisioning the way school districts approach land use and funding. With a focus on school districts throughout California, Brookwood Partners leverages its private sector experience to bring innovative solutions to the public sector…

KQED, Erin Baldassari

To stem an outflow of teachers from schools across the state, California’s Department of Education encourages districts to venture into a different business: housing. Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Tuesday announced an initiative that aims to establish the department as a go-to resource for districts looking to build homes for teachers on their property…

Education Week, Madeline Will

To respond to both soaring housing costs and staffing shortages, more school districts across the country are getting into the property management business. District leaders say that renting housing units to educators at below-market rates has become an effective recruitment and retention strategy…

Education Week, Madeline Will

School districts have a lot of responsibilities to manage. Some are adding housing to the list. More and more districts across the country are building housing complexes to rent to teachers and other school employees—often at below-market rates and on district-owned land. It’s a recruitment and retention strategy that has been fueled by both rising housing costs and staffing shortages…

EdSurge, Emily Tate Sullivan

Shirley Cruz used to pass an old parking lot on her way to and from work…Now, Cruz doesn’t drive past it. She lives on it — in a district-owned, newly constructed apartment complex occupied exclusively by the teachers and staff of Jefferson Union High School District…

EdSource, Diana Lambert

Newly signed legislation loosening zoning requirements will soon make it easier for California school districts to build affordable housing for their teachers and other staff. It is the latest in a series of bills passed by lawmakers over the last seven years to remove hurdles around building teacher housing…

EdSource, John Fensterwald

Next month, 122 teachers and other employees in the Jefferson Union High School District in Daly City will learn if they won a drawing that will allow them to move into a new housing project with below-market rents that their district is building. Nicole Ann Polo hopes to be one of them…

Coastside News, Sarah Wright

Cabrillo Unified School District is the latest to look into workforce housing as a way to make up funding gaps, targeting district properties in El Granada and Half Moon Bay as potential sites. At last week’s board meeting, district leaders invited consulting firm Brookwood Group to give an overview of potential property uses and ultimately decided to sign a contract with the consultant…