Every teacher housing project, law, and district decision, in one verified record. teacherhousing.com is an independent reference for school district and educator housing in the United States: what gets proposed, financed, built, and abandoned, with sources shown.
Teacher housing is housing built, owned, leased, or subsidized by or for a school district so that its employees can afford to live near where they work. Districts pursue it because they are losing staff to housing costs: Jefferson Union HSD in California faced roughly 25% annual staff turnover before building its own apartments, and about 70% of Lockhart ISD’s teachers in Texas commute from outside the district.
Read the guideVoter bonds, certificates of participation, tax credits, and developer partnerships, compared on cost, control, and speed.
Eligibility rules differ by project: employment status, hours, tenure, income, and homeownership all appear in real programs.
From Casa del Maestro in Santa Clara, the first California district to build housing for its employees, opened 2002, to this year of approvals.
Housing costs rose 47% to 51% nationwide between 2019 and 2025 while average beginning teacher salaries rose 24%, according to a National Council on Teacher Quality analysis reported by K-12 Dive in February 2026.
California school districts own 7,068 properties with potentially developable land of one acre or more, totaling 75,000 acres (Center for Cities + Schools, Terner Center, cityLAB, 2022).
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