Teachers sound off on SF’s slow pace on housing crisis

If that job isn’t worth a one-bedroom apartment of her own, I don’t know what is.

"I don’t want to have five roommates. I’ve paid my dues."

No teacher makes enough to comfortably afford a studio or one-bedroom in the city

On my team of ~10 software engineers who make $100-150k, not one has their own 1-bedroom in the city. Those of us with our own units are at least an hour into the East Bay, with 40+ minutes of that on BART. The married-with-kids folks are at least as far out as Dublin or El Cerrito. Those of us in the city have those 5 roommates she doesn't want.

None of us can "comfortably" afford housing, assuming that "comfortably" means according to the national average 30% allocation. I'm paying half my post-tax income for a 1-bedroom in the East Bay. Although half is still plenty for a healthy 401k contribution, reasonable car, and simple luxuries (I'm not a poor victim here) a 1-bedroom in a reasonable part of the city would leave me with more like 25% left over for everything-but-rent, and then I'd be wondering whether I could afford food any given month.

We are "the problem" and we can't even afford our own 1-bedrooms. Density, "uh, finds a way." If the city won't build more units, even the rich are wiling to pack the existing ones more densely. I don't see how someone with less than 1/3rd my of my boss's income is going to live better than him.

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