Welcome to the Tahoe Prosperity Center’s first Housing specific newsletter. Going forward this newsletter will provide housing information, updates, and ways you can support housing in the Tahoe region. The Tahoe Prosperity Center first began pulling partners together to address the housing crisis in 2018, with the South Shore Housing Tahoe Partnership. It spurred the creation of the South Shore Region Local Housing Needs and Opportunities Assessment and culminated in the South Shore Region Local Resident Housing Action Plan. The Action Plan was released in March, 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold, and we feared that progress may be delayed. However, nothing could have been further from the truth. Virtually all of the partners on the South Shore have been making incredible progress, despite the unprecedented challenges we’ve faced in the last 18 months. A sampling of progress includes:
Policy changes for greater ADU adoption and hotel to housing conversions;
New housing developments for below market rate rental and ownership homes
Increased single room occupancy (SRO) units in the City’s program
A new sewer unit transfer program for affordable housing
