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Five Denver teachers will soon be living rent-free in a new downtown apartment building, the second housing giveaway this year focused on early career educators in the city.
The teachers will get 12 free months in the Avalon Governors Park development, a 13-story complex just south of Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, through a partnership between the Denver Public Schools Foundation and the developer, AvalonBay Communities.
The five rent-free apartments represent another small step toward the foundation’s goal of providing free housing to 150 district educators by the start of the 2025-26 school year. Last June, a different company, Grand Peaks, donated a year of rent-free living at a new northwest Denver apartment complex to 10 district teachers. Together, the two efforts get the foundation 10% of the way to its goal.
Free apartments are certainly a boon to young educators …