Editor’s note: With tens of thousands of San Francisco students returning to classrooms this month, The Examiner is sharing throughout August the stories of the educators, initiatives and organizations supporting them. Read the full series here.

San Francisco’s longstanding ambition to create homes specifically for cash-strapped educators is finally getting a real-world test.

In December, the first new residents began moving into Shirley Chisholm Village, a 135-unit affordable housing development in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood. It is The City’s first affordable-housing complex with housing specifically set aside for San Francisco Unified School District educators.

“I feel like it's a good situation,” said Terrente Richardson, a paraeducator at Malcolm X Academy wh

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