Workforce housing at Lake Tahoe: It’s hard to find, it’s way too expensive, and it sometimes leaves 30 somethings stuffed together with a bunch of roommates like they are back in college.  Long term rental housing has been a problem for those who live and work in Tahoe for decades, but it was exasperated by Covid, and the subsequent real estate boom was caused when many Bay Area folks moved to the mountains because they no longer had to work in the city.

Take a look at any issue facing Lake Tahoe communities from lack of affordable housing to parking nightmares, from crowded trailheads to an increase in litter, and you will find angry locals responding to the problem by lambasting out-of-towners suggesting they pack it up and go back to where they came from.