We The People (10-09-26) -Johnny Flores
Oct 9, 2026 · 57 min · 23 segments
Host Rob Roark talks with Democratic Candidate for Hays County Precinct 2 Johnny Flores.
Oct 9, 2026 · 57 min · 23 segments
Host Rob Roark talks with Democratic Candidate for Hays County Precinct 2 Johnny Flores.
Now, if I'm correct, this is kind of like a rent to own, right? Is that there's after a certain point, they then own the house, right? Well, and
I want to get back on some of the details that have been worked out since I left the school board.
We had an apartment complex that did something similar, and it was very successful.
An apartment complex came in and said, hey, we're going to offer teachers in partnership with the district below market rate on rental apartments.
Well, do you think this is the way to go then for, you know, the big issue out there? So much of the time is affordable housing.
Let me kind of backtrack that just a little bit because you have now the cost of a home as a percentage of your income.
And now I wouldn't be able to do that because 30 years later, it is now almost five times what I was doing to try to pay for a home.
Okay, so you've gone, and you've gone to Texas State, and you've got a four-year teaching degree.
You go out, and for the most part, a teacher's salary is somewhere at about $65,000, $55,000 to $65,000 early on.
How do you afford a house? That's the whole thing.
And so
I'm going to let you expand on that a little bit, but that's for this generation that is coming up.
Well, and we, you know, we're putting it into context and, you know, housing is such a determinant for many things that can go wrong.
When you don't have housing, you have more of a tendency to, you know, for many folks, unfortunately, to commit crimes, to experience homelessness, to... to kind of drift downward in your situation.
Now, if I'm correct, this is kind of like a rent to own, right? Is that there's after a certain point, they then own the house, right? Well, and
I want to get back on some of the details that have been worked out since I left the school board.
We had an apartment complex that did something similar, and it was very successful.
An apartment complex came in and said, hey, we're going to offer teachers in partnership with the district below market rate on rental apartments.
Well, do you think this is the way to go then for, you know, the big issue out there? So much of the time is affordable housing.
Let me kind of backtrack that just a little bit because you have now the cost of a home as a percentage of your income.
And now I wouldn't be able to do that because 30 years later, it is now almost five times what I was doing to try to pay for a home.
Okay, so you've gone, and you've gone to Texas State, and you've got a four-year teaching degree.
You go out, and for the most part, a teacher's salary is somewhere at about $65,000, $55,000 to $65,000 early on.
How do you afford a house? That's the whole thing.
And so
I'm going to let you expand on that a little bit, but that's for this generation that is coming up.
Well, and we, you know, we're putting it into context and, you know, housing is such a determinant for many things that can go wrong.
When you don't have housing, you have more of a tendency to, you know, for many folks, unfortunately, to commit crimes, to experience homelessness, to... to kind of drift downward in your situation.
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