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One Way to Keep Teachers in the Bay? House Them

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Shirley Chisholm Village, is an affordable housing development that gives priority to San Francisco Unified School District educators, on April 12, 2026, in San Francisco, CA. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)

Some school districts are now providing workforce housing, as they find themselves with vacant properties and employees who say they can’t afford to stay in the Bay Area. 

Today, we meet one teacher in San Francisco who was planning to leave – until she got an apartment in a teacher housing complex.

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Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.

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