AZ breaks ground on tiny homes for teachers amid worsening educator shortage

> Our concern would be that a professional educator would not only work for the district, but the district would also be their landlord

Employer:

* we don't want to wages in an amount to let the worker afford healthcare on his own, so we'll just tie the worker's health-insurance to his job.

* We don't want to pay wages in an amount that would let the worker afford housing on his own, so we'll tie the worker's housing to his job.

* Next step: We don't want to pay wages in an amount to let the worker afford necessities on his own, so we'll create a company store where he'll be able to buy things with our new innovative wage/credit scheme that will tie necessities to his job.

The implementation of this idea is terrible, one that will hold a further Damocles sword over the laborers, and if widely implemented, will absolutely be used against workers in future labor-disputes. We already have the history to show that. Your employer should not control your access to life-necessities.

The fact that tiny homes are answer for teachers in some areas and not paying them more. Can the teacher take it with them when they get burnt out.

This is the same answer to solve homelessness in some regions. The Arizona parents probably still going to give these teachers hell everyday.

Technically this is correct: the solution to absurdly expensive housing costs is more housing. I just don’t see how ten 400sqft apartments being rented at “below market rate” does much to help more than … 10 people? If the problem is “housing is too expensive” you need to build enough housing to bring down the “market rate”.

It also doesn’t resolve the other issue: teachers are underpaid, frequently then have to use their own money to buy equipment for the school, and then get shit on and blamed by shitty parents that refuse responsibility for their kid’s behavior.

I live across the street from a series of tiny homes built for teachers nearly a century ago.

It makes sense. They implement a voucher system to shrink the public schools. Next logical step is shrink the housing itself. Cause and correlation, etc, but after shrinking the public schools Arizona has the worst schools in the country. Maybe they should try putting the teachers in McMansions instead to get the opposite effect?