Public school teachers in San Jose, Santa Cruz and San Francisco routinely need to stretch their budgets to cover their rent — in some cases, spending as much as 90 percent of their paycheck on housing alone, according to a new analysis from USA Today.
Santa Cruz is the nation’s least affordable city for mid-career teachers, who get paid an estimated $4,630 per month before taxes, in a market where the median rental unit costs nearly $3,100 per month, according to USA Today, which compared U.S.…
