What is Placemate?

Placemate is a housing marketplace focused on connecting vacation homeowners with local residents seeking long-term rentals in popular vacation towns. By facilitating matches between property owners and vetted locals, it aims to address the housing shortage faced by local workers in these areas.

The platform also offers a “Lease to Locals” program, incentivizing property owners to convert their short-term rental properties into long-term housing for local communities.

Over the past few months, some members of the housing committee and others from several organizations, including Washoe County, have met to discuss the implementation of a new program that Washoe County is funding to address housing shortages in Washoe Tahoe. The project is in its final stages before being released into the community. We expect the project to come online in the next couple of months.