In The News – Coming Together to Tackle Tahoe’s Housing Crisis
October 20, 2024 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in Moonshine Ink, 10/10/2024, Written by Karen Fink
Today, about half of Lake Tahoe’s workforce lives outside the Basin. Collectively we have watched residents move away from the lake or face greater housing insecurity as smaller cabins and affordable rentals become ever scarcer. Large homes and condominiums are gradually taking their place. Even though access to affordable housing serves a basic human need, here and in mountain communities across the nation it is increasingly difficult to provide.
As the next phase of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Tahoe Living program launches this fall, it is time to move beyond the low-hanging policy fixes TRPA has made thus far and start examining the fundamental changes needed to address inequities that have been building in our systems for decades. To do this successfully we need the creative ideas of as many community members as possible.
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