Mayor Lee Announces New Plan to Provide Stabilized Housing for 500 Teachers by 2020
New Strategies to Keep Teachers Living in San Francisco Include Building Educator Housing, Developing Rental Subsidy Program, Provide Downpayment Loan Assistance & Greater Tenant Counseling & Eviction
WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 22, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Mayor Edwin M. Lee and the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) with Board President London Breed and Supervisors Julie Christensen, Malia Cohen, Mark Farrell and Katy Tang announced a new plan to build and preserve housing for 500 San Francisco educators by 2020.
“An investment in a teacher is an investment in the success of our City and the success of our young people,” said Mayor Lee. “Our new strategy to create opportunities for 500 teachers and educators to find affordable housing in San Francisco– from homeownership to rental subsidies to dedicated teacher housing to eviction prevention – is another step in finding real solutions for our City’s housing affordability crisis.
The City, the School District and United Educator of San Francisco have been working on housing solutions for teachers. That partnership focuses on the need to provide a continuum of housing options that best meet the needs of SFUSD educators in order to attract new teachers to the district and to retain experienced teachers during the City’s affordability crisis.
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