https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/milpitas-school-district-teachers-housing/2989286/
The libs are trying to solve the housing crisis in deep blue areas by having teachers live with their students. Teachers are quitting and they will have no one to run their schools, but they still won't give in and support solutions that would hurt property values.
Imagine being blackmailed by the parents of one of your students, living in a deeply abusive and psychologically damaging environment like that, and just getting evicted in July when the kid moves on to the next grade.
That's a good elevator pitch for a limited series on a streaming service. Contact Netflix, comrade. Who knows?
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When I lived in the Bay Area in a town called Millbrae on the Peninsula, there was a proposal to build teacher housing on the site of a disused baseball field next to the high school. I shit you not some of the NIMBYs cited "teachers will sexually abuse children if they live so close" as their reason to oppose it. Last I heard it was dead.
Nearby Santa Clara has built like 30 units of teacher housing, but rents aren't actually that low and it looks like the mayor's property management company is the one "managing" the homes.
Daly City has also built teacher housing, and SF started building teacher housing at the same time, but whereas DC's is finished and people are living in it, SF's hasn't even broken ground.
Santa Clara has built like 30 units of teacher housing, but rents aren’t actually that low and it looks like the mayor’s property management company is the one “managing” the homes
:ancap-good:
Literally turning public education into a company town.
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teachers will sexually abuse children if they live so close
Oh yeah and having the teachers just live with the students will definitely not have that problem
Please add a content warning to your comment for CSA, and I will restore your comment.
Hell yeah, it's a good comment but I take cw's seriously on here.
:no-oil: Building affordable housing for everyone
:no-oil: Just getting a single big apartment near the school to house homeless teachers
:no-oil: Asking local parents to extend housing space to teachers free of charge
:porky-happy: Parents turning their spare closets into teacher housing at a profit
In a few years they'll be asking parents to help cloth and feed teachers.
Sarah McLaughlin will start doing commercials to adopt a sick and starved teacher with a donation of just 1.99 a month.
:frothingfash: NOW THEY’RE TRYING TO GET THE LIBERAL SJW GROOMERS IN OUR HOUSES
You're about... 3 months too early bald lady from Dr strange
Absolutely guarantee you all that within a couple years some brain genius is gonna suggest or trial out a tiny home park for teachers. Like those 15x15 little single room boxes. But ofc it will be a heart warming story lol
They already using prefab trailers for classrooms, why not for teacher housing?
Teachers do one of the most noble, honest, decent, and moral jobs in our society and we treat them like shit. Teachers deserve so much better than we receive. We all deserve more but them specifically deserve like exponentially more. They should be venerated rather than demonized.
I’m guessing this is the “fix” to the housing crisis that we can look forward to in the US for the next 20~ years. Shoving more and more people into existing housing. Bringing the tenements in the 21st century!
We're just one disruptive VC-funded phone app away from fixing this problem :cope:
fuck yes, now teachers can be abused by psychotic parents at work and home
https://www.reddit.com/r/Colorado/comments/x2gsly/affordability_crisis_ecsd_pleads_for_teacher/
A district in Colorado just announced the same shit. Median household income in Eagle County is $86k.
@ everyone
What do you think the best way to drastically lower property values is?
-e- I'm thinking along these lines rn but anything more impactful is welcome too
- Decommodify housing via nationalization. This would involve a payout to homeowners who bought their homes under the current system combined with a transition to Cuba-style lifetime tenancy rights. Ditto for excess housing stock sitting in the hands of developers, although you wouldn't want to pay market value for that.
- Aggressively build nice, dense housing that would allow lots of people to live near where they work.
- Long-term, come up with some system for allocating housing to people by need (e.g., accounting for moves for work or school, and eventually periodic "change of pace" moves).
Okay that's what a large hypothetical political organization can do. What's something that a small group of friends can do?
To keep things affordable. Stabilize the market. Prevent things from bubbling too high. You know.
Unless your small group of friends are billionaire capitalists, I'm sure there's nothing you can do individually to effect the market.
to lower property values or to actually provide housing?
If you wanna lower property values just like, do vandalism. Doesn't really help people much just lowering property values, though.
hmm do you know of any hoaxes or stuff that would give bad press or make people panic sell, or something?
Let's say you manage to accomplish this in a gentrifying neighborhood. All the wealthier people decide to sell their houses and move. Where do you imagine they are moving to?
My point being that highly-localized action in such an interconnected space like a city or the housing market will always have consequences that manifest elsewhere.
