Priced out: KCPS eyes vacant historic school building for teacher housing in Brookside

Carter Taylor sold her plasma to pay bills during her first year of teaching.

She has worked alongside more than one colleague who lived out of their car but still showed up every day to teach.

“We make too much to be eligible for affordable housing or housing vouchers,” said Taylor, an elementary teacher with Kansas City Public Schools and the legislative chair for the American Federation of Teachers Local 691. “But we are too poor to afford to live in our city.”…

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