June 17, 2026 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the TRPA Housing ENews
If you shop at a grocery store, rely on snow plow service, need health care, have kids who go to school here—all the people who provide those critical community services need housing. Without a vibrant workforce, our local economy suffers. Tahoe Housing Hub is covering stories like these. View the series here.
May 29, 2026 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 5/29/2026, Written by Katelyn Welsh
Incline Village and Crystal Bay homeowners are heading into summer equipped with wildfire preparedness and mitigation knowledge after a seminar on Tuesday night at The Chateau.
Local real estate agent Kristie Wells brought together local experts in defensible space, home hardening, insurance and risk mitigation to provide property owners with clear, practical information and actionable guidance to reduce wildfire risk and protect their homes.
Attendees heard from the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District, the Tahoe Resource Conservation District, State Farm, Peyton Insurance and others.
May 21, 2026 | Member Submitted
TRPA E-News, 05/21,2026
Lake Tahoe may not carry a national park designation, but thanks to decades of dedicated partnership, in many important ways it’s protected like one. Ninety percent of the land in the Tahoe Basin is public. Within this natural landscape, we also have vibrant communities of residents and visitors enjoying and stewarding this land.
At the same time, rising costs are pushing our workforce out of the basin, something partners are seeing firsthand. The people who teach our children, serve at our restaurants, and staff our hospitals increasingly can’t afford to live here, which means they are forced to commute from further away. This adds real pressure on Tahoe’s environment and communities.
Read on to see how Tahoe partners are working together to explore solutions, and how you can get involved.
April 22, 2026 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 4/22/2026, Written by Incline Village Realtors
The Incline Village REALTORS® received a $7,500 Housing Opportunity Grant to unite real estate leaders, stakeholders and community leaders at a Lake Tahoe Housing Forum in Incline Village to advance housing resources across the Tahoe basin and share solutions to affordability challenges across the region.
The grant award is made possible by the National Association of REALTORS® as part of its Community Development Advocacy program, which empowers REALTOR® associations to strengthen their communities through effective advocacy, partnerships, and on-the-ground initiatives.
April 14, 2026 | Member Submitted
Workforce housing and transportation are two of the most pressing challenges in the Tahoe Basin—and they are deeply interconnected. Addressing them requires not just new ideas, but better alignment across sectors, jurisdictions, and solutions.
At the 2026 Tahoe Economic Summit, this session will bring that conversation into focus, starting with the latest regional data and trends presented by Karen Fink, Long Range Planning Director at Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. Grounded in this shared understanding, the discussion will explore three core approaches shaping the path forward: building new housing, better utilizing existing housing through policy innovation, and strengthening regional transportation systems.
A panel of local leaders will then bring these strategies to life through real-world examples:Jessica Wackenhut Lomeli, Housing Manager, City of South Lake Tahoe — highlighting programs like the Long-Term Rental Incentive ProgramJim Marino, Executive Director, Tahoe Transportation District — sharing progress on microtransit, regional connectivity, and infrastructure investmentsJerry Bindel, Forest Suites & Hotel & Lodging Association — offering the employer perspective on workforce housing and transportation solutions.
Together, this session will examine the tradeoffs, costs, and opportunities across each approach—moving beyond the problem to focus on practical, coordinated solutions that support Tahoe’s workforce and economy.
Join us on May 7 at the Tahoe Blue Event Center to be part of the conversation and leave with a clearer understanding of where we’re headed—and how you can be part of the solution.
? Tickets are on sale now. Limited seating – don’t miss out!
April 13, 2026 | Member Submitted
Who needs housing in our community?
In this episode of Voices for Housing, we introduce you to Alison. Her work is critical to the environmental protection of Lake Tahoe. Alison explains how difficult it is to hire and retain quality workers simply because they cannot find affordable housing. This impacts not just the workers themselves, but the businesses who want to hire them. Building a thriving local economy is tied directly to having safe, dignified, affordable housing for local workers. This is Part 1 of Alison’s story.Watch for a new episode each month as we introduce you to people from every part of our community.
April 9, 2026 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Sierra Sun, 4/9/2026, Staff Report
As Tahoe continues to face a growing housing shortage alongside escalating wildfire risk, a hands-on workshop is bringing these two challenges together – offering a practical, local solution.
On Friday, April 24, in the “Building Tahoe Housing From Local Wood: Hands-On Panel Workshop,” regional partners will demonstrate how thinned trees from forest restoration projects can be transformed into structural mass timber building materials for housing in the Tahoe region.
Photo: North Tahoe Community Alliance
March 25, 2026 | Member Submitted
Originally published with Tahoe Housing Hub, 03/18/2026
This week we introduce you to Xander Guldman, a professional skier raised in Truckee who has come back after college to build his life here. For Xander, Tahoe/Truckee isn’t just where he skis. The mountains he grew up on, the community he’s built his life around, and the access to the outdoors make everything else in his life possible. But it all depends on the availability of affordable housing. Listen to Xander’s take on what makes this place so special and also so hard to hold onto.
The Voices for Housing campaign is made possible thanks to a generous grant from the North Tahoe Community Alliance’s TOT-TBID Dollars at Work Program.
February 23, 2026 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 2/23/2026, Staff Report
For the first time, the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation (TTCF) and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) have aligned findings from their respective housing needs analyses, revealing consistent and urgent housing challenges across the greater Tahoe region. While the two studies examine slightly different geographies, the results point to the same conclusion: there is a significant mismatch between housing supply and the local workforce’s needs.
“Since 2016, investments in regional data have helped us track progress towards achievable local housing solutions* with the many housing efforts across agencies,” said Stacy Caldwell, TTCF CEO. “This aligned data shows that most unmet need remains on working households, which are essential to our community. This moment calls for continued coordination and locally driven solutions that match the scale of the need.”
February 18, 2026 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Sierra Sun, 2/16/2026, Written by Eli Ramos
Area plans, also called community or specific plans, help keep local control, flexibility and character of the area that they cover, and are an essential function of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s (TRPA) Lake Tahoe Regional Plan. But how do these area plans address housing? And how have they changed as the Phase 2 amendments of TRPA’s housing plan have taken effect? In this month’s housing series article, the Tribune takes a look at different area plans and their specific housing policies.
What is an area plan?
Area plans, as defined by the TRPA, are plans created by local governments with community members and stakeholders to help implement the policies of the regional plan at a community scale. They contain land use goals and policies, along with zoning and regulations, permit requirements, development and design standards. They also contain goals and policies around transportation, conservation, recreation, public services and housing.