Only 17% of California homes affordable to teachers (retired, deal)

[CA4Now]

"At CSUN (Cal State Northridge), I found graduating students who intend to live with their parents, students who live with working spouses and will be fine financially, students considering a move out of the area, and students second-guessing their decision to be teachers.

“I made more money at one point waiting tables than I will probably as a first-year teacher,” said Barnaby Williams, who used to work at a Cheesecake Factory. He said he lives with a girlfriend who’s a teacher, but if at some point they’re not together, he suspects he’ll leave the area to teach or maybe find something else to do for a living."

About to become teachers, they’re worried about affording the rent:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...o-pay-the-rent

[V8 Vega]

CA teachers make up to 100,000 especially counting benefits and a big pension. If they can't afford a house it's because of very poor money management.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

CA teachers make up to 100,000 especially counting benefits and a big pension. If they can't afford a house it's because of very poor money management.

You obviously didn't read the recent article. Starting salary at LAUSD: $53,000. And it's less in higher performing public school in greater Los Angeles.

[kttam186290]

Originally Posted by HockeyMac18

Who teaches kids in the coastal regions then?

Doesn't sound sustainable.

At the rate the coastal regions are losing younger populations, there won't be a need for many teachers at some point. The inland areas are where there are younger families.

All of Southern California's young families with 2+ children are moving inland to Bakersfield, the Antelope Valley, Inland Empire, etc. To live in a home in a place like Santa Clarita, Simi Valley or Thousand Oaks is not sustainable on a single income any longer. It requires two median incomes of no less than $60k a year. It's even worse in the Orange County suburbs (Irvine, Ladera Ranch, Laguna Woods, Fullerton, Buena Park).

In Northern California, the younger larger families are bypassing Pleasanton/Dublin and Walnut Creek/Concord and moving out to Tracy, Fairfield, Brentwood, Menteca, Lodi, Hollister, Patterson, etc.

Teachers who find themselves in schools with dwindling populations along the coast will (if they haven't already) start -- literally -- shacking up with other teachers in rented homes and condos.

I've seen this already. In Reseda, there's a group of 5 teachers (all single--no kids) who rent a home together. Two of them teach here in the valley and the other three commute over to the Westside cities of Santa Monica and Culver City.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

"At CSUN (Cal State Northridge), I found graduating students who intend to live with their parents, students who live with working spouses and will be fine financially, students considering a move out of the area, and students second-guessing their decision to be teachers.

“I made more money at one point waiting tables than I will probably as a first-year teacher,” said Barnaby Williams, who used to work at a Cheesecake Factory. He said he lives with a girlfriend who’s a teacher, but if at some point they’re not together, he suspects he’ll leave the area to teach or maybe find something else to do for a living."

About to become teachers, they’re worried about affording the rent:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...o-pay-the-rent

Let's face is: teachers have never made a fortune and when people choose it as a career they do it knowing they will never be rich. Of course it is sad and yet the price of property in Ca, keeps going up. I do not understand how people can afford to pay those prices.

[Des-Lab]

If there's even a single house or apartment available for rent or sale, anywhere in the state, then THERE IS NO HOUSING SHORTAGE. Period, end of discussion.

Now waiting lists to get into specific neighborhoods or complexes, however, that's a different story and is a wish list but not a legitimate need.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by Des-Lab

If there's even a single house or apartment available for rent or sale, anywhere in the state, then THERE IS NO HOUSING SHORTAGE. Period, end of discussion.

Now waiting lists to get into specific neighborhoods or complexes, however, that's a different story and is a wish list but not a legitimate need.

Really, and how did you come to that conclusion?

[D-Doc]

More immigrants and foreign real estate investment is obviously the solution.

[NewbieHere]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

You obviously didn't read the recent article. Starting salary at LAUSD: $53,000. And it's less in higher performing public school in greater Los Angeles.

Why do they need a home. Stay renting. My kids do.

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

You obviously didn't read the recent article. Starting salary at LAUSD: $53,000. And it's less in higher performing public school in greater Los Angeles.

Based on standardized testing scores for that district, they are really overpaid.