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L.A. Rents Are So High the School District Is Building Apartments for Teachers
http://www.laweekly.com/news/la-rents-are-so-high-the-school-district-is-building-apartments-for-teachers-5552449Teachers in Los Angeles aren't exactly poor. But consider the cost of living here: A report last year said it takes you nearly $100,000 a year in household income just to make a median rental home in L.A. affordable....
The Los Angeles Unified School District is one of the few bureaucracies in town that is doing anything significant about the problem.
Its 66-unit, four-story Selma Community Workforce Housing Project is under construction at North Cherokee and Selma avenues in Hollywood and is scheduled to open in fall of 2016, the district says. It's ...
... intended for L.A. Unified employees who fall into a designated economic category. The complex is part of the District’s ambitious effort to attract and retain staff who want to live near work but can’t afford to pay for housing costs.
The Los Angeles Unified School District is one of the few bureaucracies in town that is doing anything significant about the problem.
Its 66-unit, four-story Selma Community Workforce Housing Project is under construction at North Cherokee and Selma avenues in Hollywood and is scheduled to open in fall of 2016, the district says. It's ...
... intended for L.A. Unified employees who fall into a designated economic category. The complex is part of the District’s ambitious effort to attract and retain staff who want to live near work but can’t afford to pay for housing costs.
This is actually a blast from the past. Many schools in rural Hawai'i used to have teacher housing.