Tag: Housing Crisis

Vehicle living doesn’t always come with the shine of #vanlife. Locals share their experience, and a new policy could mean solutions for safe, long-term parking for local workers who live in their cars.

Two decades after its inception, Hopkins Village has become an experiment: How do you build affordable homes and have the project make sense financially?

Truckee Artist Lofts has garnered a poor reputation because of certain residents, but the affordable housing project is on an upward trajectory, say some. Others continue to struggle with safety, function, and future.

Moonshine Ink reporter Kyra Mattson reflects on the difference between life in Tahoe as a kid and as an adult, and what it’s like to struggle to find housing in the town where she grew up.

In 2022, ordinances installed hard caps on short-term rentals in Truckee and Eastern Placer County. As the first year approaches its close, jurisdictional staffers reflect and real estate agents react.

A year into its existence, the Truckee Artist Lofts in downtown Truckee frustrate residents, management, and community members.

As the STR playing field shifts, the question of what exactly is being managed becomes more important. Are we regulating people or businesses?

Placer County Supervisor Cindy Gustafson points to the positive gains made in workforce housing despite the crisis Tahoe continues to wade through. Enews email excerpt: Amid a housing crisis that still hasn’t recovered from 2008, Placer County Supervisor Cindy Gustafson argues that there is work being done to address Tahoe’s shortage of homes for the local workforce.

STRs aren’t all to blame for the lack of affordable long-term rental housing in the region. Meet a local property owner whose efforts to offer long-term housing have been stifled by permitting woes.

It’s a diagnosis for those getting greedy in the housing market.