SacBee: Sacramento-area school district to build affordable housing for teachers, employees; https://www.sacbee.com/news/equity-lab/article296894224.html.

This SacBee article from December 11, 2024, highlights a Twin Rivers Unified School District project to add workforce housing for beginning teachers and other school district employees. Though it is less of a problem in the Sacramento region than in many cities, teachers and other employees on the lower end of the income scale can often not afford to live near their school because rents are too high.

With shrinking student populations in most, though certainly not all, of the school districts in the Sacramento region, there are empty or underutilized school district property that could be used for housing. While I worked for San Juan Unified, I encouraged the district to explore this option, as the district has many school sites that are unused, or only partially used for special programs. In fact the district office has a vast parking lot that used to be a bus yard and now grows weeds.