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…Employee housing has shown to be a highly effective strategy for addressing the school staffing crisis. Jefferson Union High School District in Daly City, an area hard-hit by the high cost of housing, recently opened a 122-unit housing development for staff…
Read MoreCampus 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.
Read MoreKTVU 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…
Read MoreKQED, Adhiti Bandlamudi
School districts in the Peninsula and the South Bay look likely get funding to build teacher housing, according to early returns…
Read MoreMarin Independent Journal, Keri Brenner
…At Tuesday’s Novato school board meeting, trustees voted unanimously to accept a feasibility study prepared by their consultant on the use of five district surplus sites for staff housing. The consultant, Chris White of Brookwood Partners, outlined possibilities for sites, along with suggestions for financing…
Read MoreCalMatters, 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…
Read MoreAccesswire
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…
Read MoreKQED, 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…
Read MoreMarin Independent Journal, Keri Brenner
…Chris White, principal of Oakland-based consulting firm Brookwood Partners, told the advisory committee that a 2022 workforce housing project at the Jefferson Union High School District in Daly City eliminated staff vacancies…
Read MoreMarin Independent Journal, Keri Brenner
…A district committee chose Brookwood Partners, which has completed similar projects at other Bay Area school districts, from a group of potential candidates. The committee was composed of Derek Knell, the staff housing development director; Tracy Smith, the superintendent; Joshua Braff, the chief financial officer; attorney James Traber; and Leslie Benjamin, the communications director…
Read MoreEducation 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…
Read MoreEducation 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…
Read MoreEdSurge, 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…
Read MoreEdSource, 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…
Read MoreEdSource, 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…
Read MoreCoastside 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…
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