Pflugerville ISD has landed on a site for its long-planned teacher housing development, picking 40 to 50 acres on the southern end of the Andrewartha property for a 202-unit community that will eventually house district employees at below-market rents. The site sits between an existing neighborhood to the west and future development planned to the east, and construction on the first 128 units is expected to begin before the rest of the project is built out.
Pflugerville ISD Chief Operations Officer Victor Valdez provided the update during a meeting of the district's Workforce Housing Public Facility Corporation board on Monday, according to Community Impact Newspaper. Valdez said the site is a nice place for teachers to live and feel like they are in a residential area, adding that the complex's development fits well there — though he cautioned the project still needs infrastructure approvals and must start moving dirt quickly, per the same report.
The housing site will be built near the district's upcoming Advanced Pathways for Excellence (APEX) Center, which is under construction on the northern portion of the same Andrewartha property. That $76 million career and technical education hub broke ground on its 20-acre section in November 2025, and the land near Wells Branch Parkway was donated to the district to avoid tapping capital funds for the acquisition, according to prior Hoodline coverage of the CTE project.
What the 202 Units Will Look Like
At full build-out, the project includes 28 one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartments at 675 square feet each, 66 two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartments at 1,015 square feet each, and 108 three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom duplexes or townhomes at 1,750 square feet each. The district's design leans heavily toward larger units, aligning with a November 2023 teacher housing survey that found demand split 13 percent for one-bedroom homes, 33 percent for two-bedroom homes, and 54 percent for three-bedroom homes, per district documents.
Beyond the housing itself, the community is slated to include an amenity center with a clubhouse, gym and conference room, a pool with cabanas, a dog park, playgrounds and pickleball areas, and nature trails. No cost estimate for the project has been made public. Schematic design work has already been completed, and the district expects to seek permits from the city of Austin and Travis County in the coming months.
A Nonprofit Built to Govern, Not Manage
The project runs through the district's Workforce Housing Public Facility Corporation, a nonprofit sponsored by Pflugerville ISD but operating as a legally separate entity with the authority to finance, acquire, construct, renovate and repair public facilities. The corporation's five-member board includes two school board trustees, two district staff members, and one community member, and Superintendent Quintin Shepherd has said the board will function strictly as a governance body rather than a landlord, according to Community Impact's earlier reporting on the project's structure. Day-to-day tenant relations will instead fall to an independent property management company.
Officials including Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Land and General Counsel Jacob Woolston are still finalizing formal criteria for the site, which will cover tenant qualifications such as employee tenure, credit history and rental history, along with an income verification process and financial qualification limits for the project's affordable units. The Public Facility Corporation board's next meeting is scheduled for January.
Such corporations are authorized under Chapter 303 of the Texas Local Government Code, which lets nonprofit public facility corporations issue lease revenue bonds, hold property titles, and extend property tax exemptions to support municipal or school district workforce housing, according to Butler Snow. Pflugerville ISD has used the mechanism before, forming a PFC in 2021 to acquire a former church facility on Pecan Street that is being converted into a central learning and technology support center slated to open in early 2026.
Rooted in a 2022 Bond, Built to Pay for Itself
The project traces back to Proposition H, a $43.9 million bond measure Pflugerville ISD voters approved in November 2022 as part of a larger $367.2 million multi-proposition bond package, specifically earmarked for land purchase and construction of district-owned affordable workforce housing. Once built, the community is designed to be self-sustaining: employee rent payments are meant to cover ongoing property maintenance and management costs, keeping classroom operating budgets untouched while bond funds cover the initial construction.
Before pursuing ground-up construction, Pflugerville ISD trustees approved a 2023 memorandum of understanding with the Texas Workforce Housing Foundation to offer discounted rental rates for staff at local apartment complexes, backed by an initial $1 million affordability fund. The housing site's design and preparation have since been folded into a broader slate of voter-approved 2022 bond construction work, including HVAC overhauls and campus upgrades, scheduled across district campuses through summer 2026.
Pflugerville ISD is far from alone in turning to this model. Austin ISD approved a contract with developer NRP Group in November 2023 to build a 500-unit workforce housing complex on its own district-owned land in East Austin, reserving at least half the units for school staff, according to KVUE. Round Rock ISD, Hays CISD, Eanes ISD and Seguin ISD have also partnered with the Texas Workforce Housing Foundation to offer staff rent discounts tied to income limits, a trend the San Antonio Express-News has tied to rising Austin-area living costs pushing districts toward creative housing perks to retain staff.
