US teachers grapple with a growing housing crisis: ‘We can’t afford rent’

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Educators are struggling with pay disparities and a widening housing and cost-of-living crisis

between $2,247 and $3,826, meaning that they would pay at least half their salary in rent each year.

The pandemic further illuminated the disparities within the education system for students and teachers, forcing districts to reckon with what investments in salaries and beyond need to be made. And as a national teacher shortage persists, the shortage of Black and Latino teachers, particularly in diverse, impoverished school districts like Los Angeles, creates a gap between who students from marginalized backgrounds can relate to.

Austin Worden, the district’s director of communication and staff housing, said the educational housing project has helped with recruiting teachers in the district that typically experiences a 25% yearly turnover in teachers, adding that other districts have reached out to inquire about their model.

Corazon Gatbonton, a Jefferson Union high school math teacher at the district-operated apartment she moved into last May.Gray sees the value in district-operated housing as a “great place to start” especially for attracting and retaining newer teachers who struggle with low pay. Still, she and other teachers argue that the short-term solutions to housing assistance only go so far., called on parents to offer rooms to teachers and school employees to rent.

“There’s a big impact in our lives,” Gatbonton says. “We know that we have secure housing. We can live comfortably. This gave us a chance to live together.”Photograph: Constanza Hevia H/The Guardian “I don’t think I would have become a teacher if it wasn’t for this program, honestly,” Youngblood says. If she had gone another direction like most of her peers, Youngblood would have gone unpaid as a student-teacher as she took classes for her teaching credentials then would have started at a subpar salary at a predominantly Black and Latino school district nestled in one of the most expensive regions in the country.

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