A Colorado School district said that it is planning to build affordable homes for its employees Saturday.
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, according to the Denver Gazette .
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, according to Forbes Advisor .
The salary for new teachers in the district is $47,545, according to the Gazette.
“(New teachers) ask, ‘Can I live in Colorado Springs?’ And I say you can, but you have to have a roommate or two or three in order to make a paycheck go as far as possible,” Mike Claudio, assistant superintendent of personnel support services, told the Gazette.
The construction timeline will depend on fundraising.