Jessica Hernandez, a science teacher, comes home to a crooked and rodent-infested basement unit that she and her boyfriend can’t afford — so the family is planning to move into an RV.
Katie Waller-O’Connell, a school counselor, was lucky enough to move into an existing below-market-rate unit in Hunter’s Point. But now that she is married and has a 10-month-old son, she’s trapped in a unit far too small to accommodate three people, with few options but to leave the area.
On Nov. 5, voters will weigh Proposition E, an attempt to speed up the delivery of educator housing as well as other buildings that are completely below-market-rate. To better understand how the housing crisis is hitting teachers, Civic spoke with two SFUSD employees in their homes.
“One of my friend’s daughters started living in RV a few months ago […] We started talking about it more and more, and we just normalized it.” — Jessica Hernandez, SFUSD science teacher
A segment from our radio show, “Civic.” Listen daily at 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on 102.5 FM, available in San Francisco.
