Housing for the servants...

[albacore]

My wife and I bike around our small Washington state town, and we see all the new houses being built... and sold like hotcakes....we ask ourselves: "Who can afford a $900,000 house. Where are the regular people, like the teachers, going to live?"
A Colorado school district may have an answer... tiny-house teacher ghettos. 352 sq ft houses that the district will rent to employees for $825/month.
Welcome to the future, folks. Tiny (rental) houses for the servants, mansions for the monied elite.

"Harrison School District 2 in Colorado Springs is in the planning stages of building 20, 352-square-feet duplexes on an acre parcel at the district's Mountain Vista Community School.
The $6 million dollar project will offer electrically powered homes at a rent of $825 a month. The average rent in Colorado Springs is $1,720 per month and the average home price is $523,456.
The salary for new teachers in the district is $47,545"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/04/colorado-school-district-plans-teacher-housing-on-district-property/72472972007/?fbclid=IwAR0NBsG5schlwWNJ7sqBPR5SX6N8q3BRysBVrK1cvu8CZNtdqtej8hFnibY

[getagrip_already]

1. So roughly 17x20.....

2 rooms plus a bathroom.

Or one larger studio with a bathroom.

I've lived in smaller.

And btw, $900k isn't always a mansion. My first house was only 1000 square feet, 2 bedrooms one bath and it is currently estimated on zillow at $950k. We only paid $77k for it.

Things can go sideways in some markets.

[albacore]

8. Apparently not within a 40 mile radius of Seattle....even on the far side of Puget Sound, where we are. nt

[struggle4progress]

2. 352 square feet is smaller than most of my elementary school classrooms

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Proofreading police. Pull over to the curb.

"...building twenty 352-square-feet " is the better usage. (Very small numbers should be written out as text, when ambiguity would result otherwise.)

[LoisB]

4. How about paying teachers what they deserve?

As far as I am concerned, teachers should be among the highest paid professionals in the world.

[CrispyQ]

5. I saw this a few years back.

[LoisB]

7. I love it!

[pecosbob]

6. And given the political leanings of that community the employment contract and lease will likely have a lot of clauses.

Clauses protecting their children from uncomfortable subjects.

[BannonsLiver]

9. So basically the same as it ever was

People who have money have been living inside homes that are larger than those people who have less money for quite some time.

[albacore]

10. How the hell old ARE you? Where the hell do you live? Things have changed.

I started teaching in a rich suburb of Seattle in 1970. My wife was a nurse. We bought a house in that suburb. We could afford it.
Now, the starting wage for teachers in that same suburb is $44K, and the average - with more education and experience - is $64K.
Median selling price for a house... sometimes the same house as 1970... is $1.5 million.
Out of reach.
Things have changed in the housing prices in desirable areas of the country.
I don't know where you live, but in many areas people who do service work simply can't afford to buy... or even rent.

The house I grew up in...in Detroit...still stands. Neat bungalow. Google Earth shows a tidy neighborhood..no junk cars or burned out homes. Zillow estimate of value. $14K NOT a typo.
The real estate motto is true.. Location, location, location.

[BannonsLiver]

11. How wonderful for you.