From Tiny Homes To Factory Renovations, Cities Build Subsidized Housing For Teachers

From Tiny Homes To Factory Renovations, Cities Build Subsidized Housing For Teachers

From Tiny Homes To Factory Renovations, Cities Build Subsidized Housing For Teachers For much of the 20th century, teaching was a stable, middle-class job in the United States. Now it’s becoming a lot harder to survive on a teacher’s salary: Wages have been stagnant for decades, according to a study from the Economic Policy Institute, and teachers earn 5% less than they did a decade ago when adjusting for inflation. That’s one reason why there’s a widespread teacher shortage, with tens of thousands of positions going unfilled. At the same time, according to a 2022 report from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, there are more than 160,000 under-qualified teachers in the classroom, meaning they don’t meet full certification or credentialing standards. This issue has become particularly acute as housing costs have risen sharply across the country over the past decade. Why become a teacher if it means you’ll struggle to put a roof over your head? In response, many states and cities,…