Housing
< 5 Years
Waitlists at some affordable housing sites
14
Affordable housing complexes in region
$31
Hourly income of a low-income, one-person household in Tahoe-Truckee
Housing Strategies from Sister Mountain Towns
Housing leaders from Vail, Jackson/Teton County, and Ketchum/Blaine County recently joined Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation (TTCF) to share insights into their unique housing challenges and solutions. Local housing leaders and community members gathered to learn what approaches and methods are working for communities like ours, and what could be applied here.
The challenges were familiar: housing scarcity, tourism-driven displacement, and increasing inaccessibility for longtime residents and essential workers. Solutions were slightly varied and included incentivizing property owners to place deed restrictions on homes to preserve them for year-round local workforce, building affordable units through public-private partnerships, and allowing homeowners to sell their properties for a discounted price to the city or a nonprofit for a tax dedications with deed restrictions placed to preserve local affordability.
Affordable Housing Month Highlights Urgent Local Needs
TTCF kicked off May’s Affordable Housing Month with a Lunch and Learn focused on the front-line services keeping community members housed. The conversation underscored a critical truth: while long-term housing solutions are essential, meeting immediate needs is just as vital to preserving the health of our community. Attendees learned about the everyday realities facing local renters and the importance of services like eviction prevention, legal mediation, and housing navigation. Speakers emphasized that housing insecurity isn’t just a policy issue—it’s a lived experience affecting our neighbors, families, and essential workers.
Denisse Vega Zarate, Housing Coordinator at Sierra Community House, shared how her team supports community members through direct assistance and education, including helping domestic violence survivors find safety and stability. Her insights reflected a broader call to action: to ensure our community invests in both long-term systems change and the more immediate human support needed to keep people housed. At the heart of this work is recognizing that a resilient community must meet both urgent needs and invest in long-term housing security.
Passionate about housing?
Education and outreach are essential to our efforts to help community members achieve housing security. As community partners, we must continue to engage with one another and our community about the challenges we see on the ground to keep working towards housing stability for everyone, especially those who are most vulnerable.
Denisse Vega Zarate
Housing Coordinator, Sierra Community House
Housing
A Year of Learning
This past year, TTCF’s housing work focused on listening to you, learning from experts, and convening our community. We hosted seven virtual lunch and learns featuring nineteen housing experts with 399 attendees. Topics and content were shaped through 631 survey responses collected in partnership with the Sierra Sun. These learnings will continue to inform the housing and forest-to-housing strategies of TTCF and our trusted partners.
To learn more about our community impact and how you can partner with us to make a difference, contact Stacy Caldwell at stacy@ttcf.net.