The high school principal in Paradise ― the rural California town devastated by November’s Camp fire ― resigned this week, saying he couldn’t find a place to live. “It is with great sorrow that I am resigning as Principal of Paradise High School. Plagued by Northern California’s affordable housing crisis, Butte County’s vacancy rate for rentals was low before the fire, about 1 to 2 percent. “We’ve just been unable to secure housing,” Lighthalltold the local Fox affiliate, noting that resigning was a “very hard decision” to make. “We can’t live in temporary housing year after year.”Lighthall, who came to Paradise in 2017, will start a new post as principal of a high school in central California this summer, he said in his Facebook post.

Source: Huffington Post April 11, 2019 19:11 UTC