In the meantime, winter is coming.Looking for the best Lake Tahoe Airbnb? We’re here to help you out with these suggestions. But it's a problem with dozens of layers and it won't be an easy fix. Various ideas are being considered to address the workforce housing issue - everything from permitting changes to a local fund to provide financing for smaller, more affordable housing options. "After that I need to figure something out." Now he's renting a room from someone who went on vacation for a month. You'd think they would want the steady monthly income." "I get it, I guess, but you look around here and there are so many vacation rentals sitting empty all the time. The place now generates the same amount in a week that Fournier paid each month. (Amy Westervelt/KQED)īoat mechanic Jared Fournier had to leave his rental in September when the landlord decided to turn it into an Airbnb. The region will need about 12,000 workforce housing units over the next 20 years, but has the capacity to build only 7,000.īut there are cultural and economic trends at play, too, especially the rising cost of living in the Bay Area, the increasing ease of telecommuting and what's known as "the Airbnb effect." Boat mechanic Jared Fournier has been hopping from temporary home to temporary home since losing his rental to an Airbnb conversion back in September. More than half commute out of the basin to earn enough money. Seventy-six percent of residents overpay for housing. The foundation commissioned a regional housing study earlier this year that delivered unsurprising results: Sixty-five percent of homes in Truckee and North Tahoe are second homes, many of which sit vacant most of the time. "So that shows we don't have a diversity of type of housing stock."
"We have 33,000 housing units and 80 percent of them are single-family homes," she says. (Amy Westervelt/KQED)Īccording to Stacy Caldwell, CEO of the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, a big part of the problem is that Tahoe mostly has one type of house. "There are a lot of people who are homeless, living in cars." Preschool teacher Lauren Suttie and Sugar Bowl ski racing organizer Nick Lewis were without a home for six months in Tahoe this year. “We get housing calls all the time - four or five a day from people saying, 'I'm getting evicted, I can't find a place,' " she says. "It's definitely getting worse," says Truckee-born and raised Elvia Esparza, who works at the Family Resource Center in town. More residents are finding themselves in similar situations. "We had a U-Haul packed in the driveway, our whole house was packed up and we'd told our landlord we were moving," says Suttie.
So they found another house, but 48 hours before their move-in date, those owners backed out. Then, earlier this year their landlord decided to sell his house. Here’s why the couple is house-skittish: For six years, they rented a few different places around Tahoe.
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