Desperate to find educators amid a nationwide shortage, an Arizona school district is breaking ground on an unusual recruitment tool: tiny homes for teachers.
Chino Valley Unified School District is using federal money to build 10 studio units, each 400 square feet, on a vacant lot behind an elementary school, where teachers will pay roughly $550 per month – well below the market rate for rent. The homes, expected to be finished by early fall, are designed to be transitional housing and a way to lure educators to their schools over other districts across the country.
“Most of the teacherages we’re familiar with are in very rural parts of Arizona, where there simply is not housing available,” Prescott Unified Assistant Superintendent Clark Tenney said. “That’s not the case in Prescott. There are lots of homes, but with our median home price being over $600,000, that prices teachers completely out of the market.
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