Teacher Housing Initiatives: An Embedded Case Study of Race, Place, and the School-Housing Nexus (Poster 12)

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Abstract

This dissertation study investigates the growing yet understudied phenomenon of teacher housing initiatives (THIs)—district-funded affordable housing projects designed to mitigate the impacts of the U.S. housing crisis on educators. Rooted in the sociology of education, critical policy analysis, and critical geography, I use a mixed-method case study design to show how THIs are shaped by land-use politics, the political economy of cities and schools, and the racialization of space and place. I argue that while THIs may offer short-term relief and support recruitment and retention, they are neither neutral nor long-term solutions. Instead, they function as market-oriented interventions that often prioritize private partnerships over teachers’ precarity, trust, and community displacement across lines of race, class, and place.

Author

• Jackquelin Bristol, University of Colorado - Boulder