Like so many teachers, Louisa Gamboa is sacrificing more and more for the job she loves. Give me one word that starts with the letter. That's why she lives with three other teachers in *** three bedroom home. We're on our way home and car pulls 30 minutes to her special ed classroom in Chino Valley, Arizona. That was the closest affordable house. Yes. Yes. And that's the only available one. Has it been difficult making it month to month. It's very difficult, almost nothing to spare. The combination of low salaries and increasingly little affordable housing has worsened the teacher shortage in states like Arizona. So desperate to attract educators. Chino Valley Unified School District is breaking ground on *** teacher housing project also known as *** teacher rich building 10 tiny homes behind an elementary school where teachers will pay well below the market rate for rent if they can save *** couple $100. I think that ultimately that could make the difference. It's *** matter of money. Jason White, *** 50 year old high school English teacher living with his parents near Phoenix, heard about Chino Valley's project and applied for *** job. Do you think you'd take *** job there if you didn't get that housing, I wouldn't. And it's not *** think or not think. I simply wouldn't because I couldn't afford to live there. At least eight Arizona districts are creating their own teacher age with some help from *** federal grant. This vacant school near Sedona will be turned into 11 apartments in Prescott. I think this could be *** game changer for us. Six modular homes will sit behind an elementary school. I hate to compare it to this, but in some ways, it's kind of like the Hunger Games having something like this available, maybe gives us *** leg up on the competition, so to speak. Teacher housing projects are popping up across the country from California to West Virginia. But some are skeptical of teacher ages. I think our concern would be that *** professional educator would not only work for the district but the district would also be their landlord. Marisol Garcia heads the Arizona Education Association, the union that represents public school teachers and she sits on the governor's new educator retention task force. We're treating *** symptom and not the illness and that is we don't have enough educators who want to enter the profession, who want to stay in the profession. *** recent study found more teachers than usual left the classroom last year at *** time when students are still recovering from steep pandemic. Learning loss advocates blame *** range of issues like workload student behavior, politics and school and most of all salary, it shouldn't have to be *** vow of poverty to be *** teacher. And that's what it feels like. Megan Brown is leaving her special ed classroom next month. After 12 years of teaching, she and her husband, *** firefighter live with her parents struggling to save money to buy *** home and start *** family. We can't both be in helping professions. So I decided to leave. What is walking away from that? Like, I'm *** really proud public school teacher and it's hard, it's hard to know that I can't do it anymore.