New Haven preschool opens a rent-free village for its teachers
Friends Center for Children opened eight homes on Howard Street, built by Yale students, where early childhood educators live without paying rent.
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Friends Center for Children opened eight homes on Howard Street in New Haven where its early childhood teachers can live without paying rent. Yale students built the houses. The center's chief executive said the free rent is worth about an $18,000 raise. The center describes the project as the nation's first rent-free teacher housing village.
The homes are for the people who teach the center's youngest children, not a general apartment lottery. Rent is the cost the village is built to take off their shoulders.
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