San Diego schools have finally admitted it. They have a large deficit, declining enrollment. Instead of using staff to provide better education, they are too busy being speculators.
“Building housing, with the hopes of improving recruitment and retention, has become central in the district’s real estate strategy. That strategy involves having developers build housing on land owned by the district with joint-occupancy leases. The money collected by the district can be used in any part of its budget.
The current proposal has San Diego Unified building more than 1,000 units across five of its current sites — with moderate income housing being for employees whose families earn between 80% and 120% of the county’s area median income, and low income units for those who earn up to 80% of the area median income.
Why do they have a real estate strategy—they seemingly do not have an education strategy. OH, if the teachers living in government housing go on strike, do they get evicted from their homes? When they retire, where will they live? Now you know why government education is a failure—they Educrats are building affordable housing instead getting the students to be literate enough to go to State college.
San Diego Unified considers building 1,000 units of affordable housing for employees
EdSource, 12/9/24 https://edsource.org/updates/san-diego-unified-considers-building-1000-units-of-affordable-housing-for-employees
The San Diego Unified School District is considering building 1,000 units of income-restricted housing — which could house up to 10% of its employees in the next 10 years, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
“The time has come for us to set some bold but achievable long-term goals together,” Lee Dulgeroff, San Diego Unified’s facilities executive director, said at a board workshop last week, according to the Tribune.
Building housing, with the hopes of improving recruitment and retention, has become central in the district’s real estate strategy. That strategy involves having developers build housing on land owned by the district with joint-occupancy leases. The money collected by the district can be used in any part of its budget.
The current proposal has San Diego Unified building more than 1,000 units across five of its current sites — with moderate income housing being for employees whose families earn between 80% and 120% of the county’s area median income, and low income units for those who earn up to 80% of the area median income.
More realistically, LeSar Development Consultants senior principal Craig Adelman told the Tribune that in order to compete for the assistance, families would need to make 60% of the area median income — $63,680 — or less.
Some, including school board member Quinton Baldis, have argued that San Diego Unified should also consider housing for students and families in need.
“I truly feel like providing homes and affordable housing for our students is aligned more with our goals and guardrails as a district,” Baldis told the Tribune.
San Diego Unified is going into the real estate business? They can’t stay within budget to run the school district which they are supposedly trained and educated to do. Will property tax payers be paying taxes to educate children or will they be paying property taxes to support a real estate venture?
This is an asinine idea that would only get support in a totally far left, democrat controlled state.
If they have money for this stupid idea, they have money to give deserving employees extra money to cover housing. Our taxpayer paid schools should not be in the housing business.
California voters, pay attention to who you are voting for.
Even our low level elections can result in incompetent public employees that don’t know their real job purpose.