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Schools in the greater San Francisco area in the USA are increasingly facing problems with rising rents for apartments.
In the Milpitas school district in California alone, ten teachers were fired at the end of the school year because the house and apartment prices in the San Francisco Bay area were too high, reports the Washington Post.
The teachers had terminated their employment contracts because they could no longer afford to live near their schools.
The responsible school authority has therefore written to the parents in the district and asked them to report free - and as cheap as possible - housing that they "would like to share with our educators at the Milpitas Unified School District".
The email also asks parents how many rooms they can make available and for what price.
According to the report, within a few days there were more than 50 responses with offers.
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At the end of August, the local school authorities had already dealt with the problem of rising rents.
The gap between "those who can afford a home in the San Francisco Bay Area and those who can't is widening at an alarming rate," according to a resolution.
About half of the approximately 1,000 employees in the district are teachers.
These are "middle-income employees" who are finding it increasingly difficult to rent or buy a house or apartment.
In employee surveys in 2017 and 2021, half of those surveyed complained about high rents and long commutes, reports the Washington Post.
In addition to appealing to parents, the district is also trying to arrange low-cost housing loans for teachers and to buy or build apartments to house its employees.
In Daly City, south of San Francisco, for example, there are 122 apartments in which teachers and other public sector workers can live for up to five years at reduced rents well below market prices.
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