Recently, a high school teacher in California’s San Francisco Bay area moved out of a small apartment that she shared and into her own place.
For 41-year-old Lisa Raskin, a San Francisco native, this was once an impossible dream. In the city of San Francisco, property is very costly. Rent payments are high. And there is resistance to new housing.
But now, Raskin pays $1,500 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. And her new home is within walking distance of her job.
She told the Associated Press, or AP, “I have a sense of community, which I think is more valuable than anything else. More districts really need to consider this model. I think it shows educators that they value them.”
Her employer is a 4,000-student school district south of San Francisco. In May, that district made 122 apartments available for its teachers and workers.
Experts are calling it “workforce

