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"content": "\u003cp>Steve O’Neal lives with his three kids and wife in Bolinas, on the ocean, just north of San Francisco. It’s his dream location to raise a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re next to this progressive, urban city,” O’Neal said. “Yet we’re in the middle of a nature park.” But there’s one big problem: all the empty homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal’s neighborhood is filled with vacant houses. Out of the roughly 350 homes, he estimates only 20 or 30 have someone living in them on most weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s like the aliens have come and abducted everybody except for a couple of houses.’\u003ccite>Steve O’Neal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the aliens have come and abducted everybody except for a couple of houses,” O’Neal said. “Stinson has really become a short-term rental community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stinson Beach and Bolinas have always been popular vacation destinations, but O’Neal says now with services like Homeaway, VRBO and Airbnb, there are more short-term vacation rentals than ever before. 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Other local governments have turned to outside companies, like Host Compliance, to gather data on the short-term vacation rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Stinson Beach and Bolinas, Steve O’Neal took the job on himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal used to live in San Francisco. He made money in real estate and with a telecom business during the dot-com boom. After traveling and living around the world, he and his wife decided Bolinas was the most ideal place to raise his kids. But when he moved here a year ago, he discovered one problem: The number of families was dwindling rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2476px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11723646 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2476\" height=\"1072\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM.png 2476w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-160x69.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-800x346.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-1020x442.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-1200x520.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-2.59.34-PM-1920x831.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2476px) 100vw, 2476px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stinson Beach vacation rentals listed on Airbnb.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are now just 85 kids in the area’s one K-8 elementary school. As recently as 2000, there was double that number. You can also see the decline in residents at the post office. There used to be a waiting list for P.O. boxes. Now 200 of the 700 boxes are empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal worries the towns are entering death spiral territory, where some families leave not because the school is bad or the housing unaffordable. To quantify the number and effect of short-term rentals, O’Neal had to become a detective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first place he visits is Google Earth. He looks at pictures of houses and tries to match them with online listings. He then confirms the addresses by driving by the places himself. Finally, he checks public records to see if the owners are local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When O’Neal finished gathering all his data, he found that 130 homes were being rented by people who didn’t live in the community. That is substantial he said, considering there’s only 1,000 households in all of Bolinas and Stinson, according to the most recent U.S. census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal said he has no problem with people renting out a room or in-law for extra income. 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A spokesperson for the company said, “vacation rentals have been a part of Stinson Beach and Bolinas for decades,” and that “short-term rentals have created supplemental income for families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of detective work is actually being done by private companies in cities and counties across the state and country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Host Compliance works with over 100 local governments and hires dozens of “desk detectives” to gather information on rentals. The private company even helps collect taxes and writes notices on county or city letterhead to send to those who violate local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ulrik Binzer is the CEO of Host Compliance. He said the company is filling a niche for communities that don’t have the resources to do this oversight themselves. A town or county may not have the money to hire people for an “Office of Short-Term Rentals,” like San Francisco established. With some 4 million short-term rentals across the country, Binzer said there is plenty of oversight work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around California there’s been controversy over the short-term rental services and regulations to limit them. Both Los Angeles and Del Mar, north of San Diego, have enacted contested regulations. In South Lake Tahoe, voters recently passed an ordinance to ban all short-term rentals outside of a designated tourism zone, but some property owners filed a lawsuit against the ordinance and there is pressure to delay implementation of the new rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when regulations do get passed, enforcing them can be another hurdle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco passed rules in 2014 that did things like put a cap on the number of days a place could be rented out, mandate hosts actually live in the house part-time, and require people to register with the city. 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As recently as 2000, there was double that number. You can also see the decline in residents at the post office. There used to be a waiting list for P.O. boxes. Now 200 of the 700 boxes are empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal worries the towns are entering death spiral territory, where some families leave not because the school is bad or the housing unaffordable. To quantify the number and effect of short-term rentals, O’Neal had to become a detective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first place he visits is Google Earth. He looks at pictures of houses and tries to match them with online listings. He then confirms the addresses by driving by the places himself. Finally, he checks public records to see if the owners are local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When O’Neal finished gathering all his data, he found that 130 homes were being rented by people who didn’t live in the community. That is substantial he said, considering there’s only 1,000 households in all of Bolinas and Stinson, according to the most recent U.S. census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal said he has no problem with people renting out a room or in-law for extra income. 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A spokesperson for the company said, “vacation rentals have been a part of Stinson Beach and Bolinas for decades,” and that “short-term rentals have created supplemental income for families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of detective work is actually being done by private companies in cities and counties across the state and country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Host Compliance works with over 100 local governments and hires dozens of “desk detectives” to gather information on rentals. The private company even helps collect taxes and writes notices on county or city letterhead to send to those who violate local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ulrik Binzer is the CEO of Host Compliance. He said the company is filling a niche for communities that don’t have the resources to do this oversight themselves. A town or county may not have the money to hire people for an “Office of Short-Term Rentals,” like San Francisco established. With some 4 million short-term rentals across the country, Binzer said there is plenty of oversight work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around California there’s been controversy over the short-term rental services and regulations to limit them. Both Los Angeles and Del Mar, north of San Diego, have enacted contested regulations. In South Lake Tahoe, voters recently passed an ordinance to ban all short-term rentals outside of a designated tourism zone, but some property owners filed a lawsuit against the ordinance and there is pressure to delay implementation of the new rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when regulations do get passed, enforcing them can be another hurdle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco passed rules in 2014 that did things like put a cap on the number of days a place could be rented out, mandate hosts actually live in the house part-time, and require people to register with the city. But most hosts did not register, which made \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10421814/enforcement-issues-remain-as-san-franciscos-airbnb-law-takes-effect\">enforcing the laws difficult\u003c/a>. Only in 2018, after much litigation, did the websites agree to send the city a list of registered hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal is a fan of the San Francisco laws, and would like to see similar ones enacted in Bolinas and Stinson. He hopes the data he collected will rally community members behind the idea. But some people who are renting out entires houses for most of the year are worried they’ll see a decline in income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal thinks it’s a worthy trade-off if it means more housing for local families. He knows of at least a half-dozen families who are losing their rentals and can’t find another place to live in Bolinas or Stinson Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, with flames and smoke darkening the sky above Paradise, a very pregnant Melissa Johnson packed her whole family into two cars and fled down the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time, it was my daughter who's 14 and my son who’s 11. My father-in-law, he’s disabled, and so is my husband. He’s disabled as well. We had three dogs and a cat and a rabbit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They managed to get out, as did three other households in her extended family. In total, 14 people, 11 dogs, five cats, two birds and the rabbit gathered at her sister’s one-bedroom apartment in Chico. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That night, we knew we couldn’t stay there. It was too crowded,\" said a remarkably optimistic Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, Johnson made it out of Paradise with her cellphone and her bank card, so she started calling hotels. But she was one of tens of thousands of desperate people doing the same thing at the same time. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> displaced roughly 50,000 people. She finally found two hotel rooms way up north, in Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"Lilly and William sleep on an air mattress in a Redding hotel in November, before Melissa Johnson found a better, free option through the Airbnb Open Homes program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-800x603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34404_Photo-Dec-10-2-50-06-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilly and William sleep on an air mattress in a Redding hotel in November, before Melissa Johnson found a better, free option through the Airbnb Open Homes program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Melissa Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In less than a week, Johnson spent $1,000 on hotel rooms before somebody told her about Airbnb’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/welcome/evacuees/buttecounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Homes\u003c/a> program, which pairs hosts with disaster survivors and relief workers in need of free temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb waives its fees, as part of the program, and the hosts do, too. Kellie Bentz, chief of the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnbcitizen.com/disaster-response/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Disaster Response & Relief\u003c/a>, calls Open Homes “surge capacity,” adding that it \"hits a sweet spot, creating a bit of comfort in a really tough time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Meanwhile, in Sacramento\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cinde Dolphin is originally from Southern California, where her block once survived a fire unscathed. Dolphin said the experience sensitized her to the plight of those escaping the Camp Fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just gut-wrenching,\" Dolphin said. \"It just seemed as though there was very little help for those in Paradise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolphin signed up her spare mother-in-law studio apartment on Airbnb, and within an hour received a query from Melissa Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-800x421.jpg\" alt='When Cinde Dolphin posted about her involvement with the Airbnb Open Homes program, her community of friends volunteered to provide material support to the Johnson family. \"People showed up with meals, a crib, playpen, baseball caps for their son.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-800x421.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-1020x537.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-1200x632.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Cinde Dolphin posted about her involvement with the Airbnb Open Homes program, her community of friends volunteered to provide material support to the Johnson family. \"People showed up with meals, a crib, playpen, baseball caps for their son.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinde Dolphin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was a bit skeptical that they would be comfortable in my house,\" Dolphin said. \"But [Johnson] said, 'Anything is better than where we are right now.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was enough to get Johnson through until she found a two-bedroom apartment in Carmichael, east of Sacramento. She figures they'll stay there for at least the next six months, given how long the cleanup and rebuilding effort in Paradise is likely to take. Johnson is a professional caregiver, and near Sacramento, she's in a better position to look for new clients, after she lost a primary one who relocated three hours away after the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, everything they have is donated, including a baby shower's worth of gifts for little Annette Marie, born 10 days after the Camp Fire started, at a robust 11 pounds 2 ounces. Dolphin posted about Johnson’s family on Facebook, and her social circle responded with everything from a playpen for the baby to a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa, Annette, Trevor, Jerry, Kalea, William, the Great Danes Lilly and Penelope, the toy poodle Callie, the cat Damon Chewy, and the rabbit, JJ, will all celebrate Christmas here while they negotiate with their insurance company. Johnson plans to rebuild the Paradise home they moved into \u003cem>one week\u003c/em> before the Camp Fire struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-800x521.png\" alt=\"More than 2,500 Airbnb hosts in California volunteered their properties for the company's Open Homes program during the wildfire season, providing temporary shelter for roughly 1,800 people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-800x521.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-1020x664.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-1200x781.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34406_Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-3.15.22-PM-1920x1250.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 2,500 Airbnb hosts in California volunteered their properties for the company's Open Homes program during the wildfire season, providing temporary shelter for roughly 1,800 people. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Airbnb)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We still own it … what’s left of it. It was beautiful, surrounded by trees. Dogs ran and played all day long,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's fair to say Johnson's family relies on her strength and generosity every day, but she said she’s been overwhelmed by the generosity she’s received from people who were strangers before the Camp Fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s been overwhelming to see how kindhearted and supportive people have been. It just makes me realize how I want to be like that. You know? Not only in time of need, but in general.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience had a big impact on Dolphin, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This experience really reinforced in my thinking that we are so blessed and fortunate to have what we have,\" she said. \"And if we can share it with others, just give them a place to regroup and plan for the next step, it makes a huge difference.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Dolphin said the experience sensitized her to the plight of those escaping the Camp Fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just gut-wrenching,\" Dolphin said. \"It just seemed as though there was very little help for those in Paradise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolphin signed up her spare mother-in-law studio apartment on Airbnb, and within an hour received a query from Melissa Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-800x421.jpg\" alt='When Cinde Dolphin posted about her involvement with the Airbnb Open Homes program, her community of friends volunteered to provide material support to the Johnson family. \"People showed up with meals, a crib, playpen, baseball caps for their son.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-800x421.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-160x84.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-1020x537.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut-1200x632.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34405_Screen-Shot-2018-12-07-at-4.16.57-PM-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Cinde Dolphin posted about her involvement with the Airbnb Open Homes program, her community of friends volunteered to provide material support to the Johnson family. \"People showed up with meals, a crib, playpen, baseball caps for their son.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinde Dolphin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was a bit skeptical that they would be comfortable in my house,\" Dolphin said. \"But [Johnson] said, 'Anything is better than where we are right now.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was enough to get Johnson through until she found a two-bedroom apartment in Carmichael, east of Sacramento. She figures they'll stay there for at least the next six months, given how long the cleanup and rebuilding effort in Paradise is likely to take. Johnson is a professional caregiver, and near Sacramento, she's in a better position to look for new clients, after she lost a primary one who relocated three hours away after the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, everything they have is donated, including a baby shower's worth of gifts for little Annette Marie, born 10 days after the Camp Fire started, at a robust 11 pounds 2 ounces. Dolphin posted about Johnson’s family on Facebook, and her social circle responded with everything from a playpen for the baby to a Christmas tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa, Annette, Trevor, Jerry, Kalea, William, the Great Danes Lilly and Penelope, the toy poodle Callie, the cat Damon Chewy, and the rabbit, JJ, will all celebrate Christmas here while they negotiate with their insurance company. 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"content": "\u003cp>Short-term rental websites are changing the communities near Yosemite National Park. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The booming vacation rental market is creating a shortage of places for locals to rent for the long-term, and in some cases it's contributing to the area's homeless problem. And now the growing lack of long-term rentals is causing a hiring issue in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes an army of people to keep Yosemite National Park’s facilities tidy from the constant barrage of tourists -- 4 million people are expected to visit this year, with the majority in the summer months. This spring Ron Borne, with the maintenance division of the park, was on track to hire a full custodial staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of 30 seasonal custodial workers that we had positions, with funds, we were only able to fill 17 of those positions,” say Borne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He couldn't fill 10 percent of his workforce of about 300 people -- custodians, trail crews, maintenance crews -- when they chose to not work in the park because of the lack of rentals in the area. One of his employees was recently in the process of trying to rent a house in Mariposa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were negotiating and the owner came back and said, ‘No, I’m sorry. I can’t rent to you because I can make my mortgage as an Airbnb. 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After he sold his home in the area, he wasn’t able to find a long-term rental close to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gap in hires left the park vulnerable and a bit dirty this summer. During busy months thousands use the restrooms daily at Lower Yosemite Falls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing that it’s dirty,” says Yosemite National Public Information Officer Scott Gediman as he shows me one of the busiest restrooms in the park. “There's some litter I see. Somebody left some gloves and there's toilet paper. We would like the public to see a cleaner restroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lower Yosemite Falls restrooms have multiple stalls and sinks. Gediman says one tour bus full of visitors can make it look like no one's cleaned it in days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"b7iL6tKPY1tIojKk8DpfO1c6UnAMJhVr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of the summer we’ll get 50 to 60 tour buses a day,” Gediman says. “With the staffing shortages that we experienced this summer there were times when I walked in personally and it would just be a lot messier than it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gediman says potential employees can’t find places to live because so many long-term rentals are being converted to vacation rentals, like Airbnb and VRBO, in the communities that lead into the park. In Madera County there are more than 300 short-term rentals and over 600 in Mariposa County. Both counties have established guidelines for short-term rentals, but aren’t discouraging them because they stand to make a lot of money from taxes they bring in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year Madera County has collected over $3 million in taxes from hotel and short-term rental visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'After a while it takes a toll on a person'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Patty Radanovich-Sousa is a property manager in the gold rush town of Mariposa. She gets calls daily from people looking for long-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been turning away people since the first of the year consistently,” says Radanovich-Sousa. “We have had one or two homes come up and surprisingly they were large expensive homes and they surprisingly rented within a month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it's almost easier to buy a home in the mountains near Yosemite than it is to rent a spot. Radanovich-Sousa says there’s a long waiting list for rentals here and she wishes she could rent to more park employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You also then have an opportunity as a business person to weed through your applicants a little bit more,” says Radanovich-Sousa. “You can get good applicants, which means long-term applicants. The other thing is park service people are one of our best customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Morse, division chief for strategic planning at Yosemite, says the lack of rentals, long commutes and cost end up driving away potential hires.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626887\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-960x718.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-375x280.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-520x389.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathleen Morse, division chief for strategic planning at Yosemite, says the lack of rentals, long commutes and cost end up driving away potential hires. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still it's not just low-paid short-term employees that are saying it’s hard to find rentals in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our permanent workforce is making good money, but they’re not making enough to afford some of the better homes in the area,” says Kathleen Morse, division chief for strategic planning with Yosemite National Park. “It hits everybody fairly equally. It’s not like the permanent job and the permanent salary gives you that much of a leg up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park employs around 450 long-term employees and around 600 short-term employees, but only has about 400 beds for them. At the height of the summer the park needs about 200 more, but Morse says NPS has no plans to build more at this time. Morse says many who take jobs end up having to live further and further away in places like Merced. She says hires then have to decide if the long commute and cost to travel into the park are worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"H6Tzwna6AHeTHXc8mC8s0W8Z9gJxeVJ4\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a while it takes a toll on a person,” say Morse. “So we’ll have people for a while and then they’ll fall off, they’ll disappear and then they’ll quit. And then we’ll have to go through the hiring process again. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Short-term rental websites are changing the communities near Yosemite National Park. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The booming vacation rental market is creating a shortage of places for locals to rent for the long-term, and in some cases it's contributing to the area's homeless problem. And now the growing lack of long-term rentals is causing a hiring issue in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes an army of people to keep Yosemite National Park’s facilities tidy from the constant barrage of tourists -- 4 million people are expected to visit this year, with the majority in the summer months. This spring Ron Borne, with the maintenance division of the park, was on track to hire a full custodial staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of 30 seasonal custodial workers that we had positions, with funds, we were only able to fill 17 of those positions,” say Borne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He couldn't fill 10 percent of his workforce of about 300 people -- custodians, trail crews, maintenance crews -- when they chose to not work in the park because of the lack of rentals in the area. One of his employees was recently in the process of trying to rent a house in Mariposa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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So, I’m sorry, I cannot do a long-term rental agreement.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Borne, with Yosemite's maintenance division, says he lost 10 percent of his staff this year due to housing issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-800x552.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-960x663.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-375x259.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RonBorn-520x359.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Borne, with Yosemite's maintenance division, says he lost 10 percent of his staff this year due to housing issues. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Borne himself commutes from Merced to Yosemite. After he sold his home in the area, he wasn’t able to find a long-term rental close to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gap in hires left the park vulnerable and a bit dirty this summer. During busy months thousands use the restrooms daily at Lower Yosemite Falls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing that it’s dirty,” says Yosemite National Public Information Officer Scott Gediman as he shows me one of the busiest restrooms in the park. “There's some litter I see. Somebody left some gloves and there's toilet paper. We would like the public to see a cleaner restroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lower Yosemite Falls restrooms have multiple stalls and sinks. Gediman says one tour bus full of visitors can make it look like no one's cleaned it in days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of the summer we’ll get 50 to 60 tour buses a day,” Gediman says. “With the staffing shortages that we experienced this summer there were times when I walked in personally and it would just be a lot messier than it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gediman says potential employees can’t find places to live because so many long-term rentals are being converted to vacation rentals, like Airbnb and VRBO, in the communities that lead into the park. In Madera County there are more than 300 short-term rentals and over 600 in Mariposa County. Both counties have established guidelines for short-term rentals, but aren’t discouraging them because they stand to make a lot of money from taxes they bring in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this year Madera County has collected over $3 million in taxes from hotel and short-term rental visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'After a while it takes a toll on a person'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Patty Radanovich-Sousa is a property manager in the gold rush town of Mariposa. She gets calls daily from people looking for long-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been turning away people since the first of the year consistently,” says Radanovich-Sousa. “We have had one or two homes come up and surprisingly they were large expensive homes and they surprisingly rented within a month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it's almost easier to buy a home in the mountains near Yosemite than it is to rent a spot. Radanovich-Sousa says there’s a long waiting list for rentals here and she wishes she could rent to more park employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You also then have an opportunity as a business person to weed through your applicants a little bit more,” says Radanovich-Sousa. “You can get good applicants, which means long-term applicants. The other thing is park service people are one of our best customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Morse, division chief for strategic planning at Yosemite, says the lack of rentals, long commutes and cost end up driving away potential hires.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626887\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-960x718.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-375x280.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/KathleenMorse-520x389.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathleen Morse, division chief for strategic planning at Yosemite, says the lack of rentals, long commutes and cost end up driving away potential hires. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still it's not just low-paid short-term employees that are saying it’s hard to find rentals in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our permanent workforce is making good money, but they’re not making enough to afford some of the better homes in the area,” says Kathleen Morse, division chief for strategic planning with Yosemite National Park. “It hits everybody fairly equally. 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McCole said that several evacuees contacted them within a few hours, including a Santa Rosa couple who lost their home to the fire. The couple is now confirmed to stay with them later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great opportunity for the community to support other people in the community,” said McCole, whose sister in Southern California also recently evacuated because of a fire. “A lot of people just told us their stories. 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"content": "\u003cp>In and around Lake Tahoe, housing costs are going through the roof. Of course, that’s the case for all of California -- but what makes the situation in Tahoe unique is that the people driving up the cost of local housing don’t actually live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/296908651\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local preschool teacher Lauren Suttie knows this too well. For six months, she lived in a 24-foot RV with her boyfriend, Nick Lewis, and their two large dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We call it the mobile mansion,\" she says as she shows me around. \"I mean, I know people living in their cars, so this is luxury. We had our bed up here, our TV. We had to turn the shower into a closet, so we didn't shower in here; we showered in the RV park.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news: The couple just moved into a new rental home. The bad news: Lewis says they still feel uneasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211347\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11211347 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-800x1067.jpg\" alt='\"Home is where you park it.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Home is where you park it.' \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You know, we've been there for two days and I still feel like someone's gonna pull the rug out from under us,\" he says. \"And I hate to be that untrusting of people, but it's kinda made me that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s why the couple is house-skittish: For six years, they rented a few different places around Tahoe. Then, earlier this year their landlord decided to sell his house. So they found another house, but 48 hours before their move-in date, those owners backed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had a U-Haul packed in the driveway, our whole house was packed up and we'd told our landlord we were moving,\" says Suttie. \"We had no place to live. We were going to be homeless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two aren't alone. More residents are finding themselves in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's definitely getting worse,\" says Truckee-born and raised Elvia Esparza, who works at the \u003ca href=\"https://tely.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=7ca579a411704af6848a08770f5b018f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.truckeefrc.org%2f\" target=\"_blank\">Family Resource Center\u003c/a> in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get housing calls all the time -- four or five a day from people saying, 'I'm getting evicted, I can't find a place,' \" she says. \"There are a lot of people who are homeless, living in cars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11211349 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Preschool teacher Lauren Suttie and Sugar Bowl ski racing organizer Nick Lewis were without a home for 6 months in Tahoe this year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-160x214.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-1020x1365.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-1180x1579.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-240x321.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-375x502.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-520x696.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preschool teacher Lauren Suttie and Sugar Bowl ski racing organizer Nick Lewis were without a home for six months in Tahoe this year. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Stacy Caldwell, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ttcf.net/\">Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation,\u003c/a> a big part of the problem is that Tahoe mostly has one type of house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have 33,000 housing units and 80 percent of them are single-family homes,\" she says. \"So that shows we don't have a diversity of type of housing stock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation commissioned a \u003ca href=\"https://tely.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=7ca579a411704af6848a08770f5b018f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ttcf.net%2fimpact%2fregional-housing-study%2f\" target=\"_blank\">regional housing study\u003c/a> earlier this year that delivered unsurprising results: Sixty-five percent of homes in Truckee and North Tahoe are second homes, many of which sit vacant most of the time. Seventy-six percent of residents overpay for housing. More than half commute out of the basin to earn enough money. The region will need about 12,000 workforce housing units over the next 20 years, but has the capacity to build only 7,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are cultural and economic trends at play, too, especially the rising cost of living in the Bay Area, the increasing ease of telecommuting and what's known as \"the Airbnb effect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211350\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11211350\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Boat mechanic Jared Fournier has been hopping from temporary home to temporary home since losing his rental to an Airbnb conversion back in September.\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boat mechanic Jared Fournier has been hopping from temporary home to temporary home since losing his rental to an Airbnb conversion back in September. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boat mechanic Jared Fournier had to leave his rental in September when the landlord decided to turn it into an Airbnb. The place now generates the same amount in a week that Fournier paid each month. \"I get it, I guess, but you look around here and there are so many vacation rentals sitting empty all the time. You'd think they would want the steady monthly income.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he's renting a room from someone who went on vacation for a month. \"So it's very temporary,\" he says. \"After that I need to figure something out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various ideas are being considered to address the workforce housing issue -- everything from permitting changes to a local fund to provide financing for smaller, more affordable housing options. But it's a problem with dozens of layers and it won't be an easy fix. In the meantime, winter is coming.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In and around Lake Tahoe, housing costs are going through the roof. Of course, that’s the case for all of California -- but what makes the situation in Tahoe unique is that the people driving up the cost of local housing don’t actually live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/296908651&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/296908651'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local preschool teacher Lauren Suttie knows this too well. For six months, she lived in a 24-foot RV with her boyfriend, Nick Lewis, and their two large dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We call it the mobile mansion,\" she says as she shows me around. \"I mean, I know people living in their cars, so this is luxury. We had our bed up here, our TV. We had to turn the shower into a closet, so we didn't shower in here; we showered in the RV park.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news: The couple just moved into a new rental home. The bad news: Lewis says they still feel uneasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211347\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11211347 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-800x1067.jpg\" alt='\"Home is where you park it.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/TahoeHousing2-e1481234010916-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Home is where you park it.' \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You know, we've been there for two days and I still feel like someone's gonna pull the rug out from under us,\" he says. \"And I hate to be that untrusting of people, but it's kinda made me that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s why the couple is house-skittish: For six years, they rented a few different places around Tahoe. Then, earlier this year their landlord decided to sell his house. So they found another house, but 48 hours before their move-in date, those owners backed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had a U-Haul packed in the driveway, our whole house was packed up and we'd told our landlord we were moving,\" says Suttie. \"We had no place to live. We were going to be homeless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two aren't alone. More residents are finding themselves in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's definitely getting worse,\" says Truckee-born and raised Elvia Esparza, who works at the \u003ca href=\"https://tely.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=7ca579a411704af6848a08770f5b018f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.truckeefrc.org%2f\" target=\"_blank\">Family Resource Center\u003c/a> in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get housing calls all the time -- four or five a day from people saying, 'I'm getting evicted, I can't find a place,' \" she says. \"There are a lot of people who are homeless, living in cars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11211349 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Preschool teacher Lauren Suttie and Sugar Bowl ski racing organizer Nick Lewis were without a home for 6 months in Tahoe this year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-160x214.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-1020x1365.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-1180x1579.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-240x321.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-375x502.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis-520x696.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/LaurenSuttie_NickLewis.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preschool teacher Lauren Suttie and Sugar Bowl ski racing organizer Nick Lewis were without a home for six months in Tahoe this year. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Stacy Caldwell, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ttcf.net/\">Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation,\u003c/a> a big part of the problem is that Tahoe mostly has one type of house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have 33,000 housing units and 80 percent of them are single-family homes,\" she says. \"So that shows we don't have a diversity of type of housing stock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation commissioned a \u003ca href=\"https://tely.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=7ca579a411704af6848a08770f5b018f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ttcf.net%2fimpact%2fregional-housing-study%2f\" target=\"_blank\">regional housing study\u003c/a> earlier this year that delivered unsurprising results: Sixty-five percent of homes in Truckee and North Tahoe are second homes, many of which sit vacant most of the time. Seventy-six percent of residents overpay for housing. More than half commute out of the basin to earn enough money. The region will need about 12,000 workforce housing units over the next 20 years, but has the capacity to build only 7,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are cultural and economic trends at play, too, especially the rising cost of living in the Bay Area, the increasing ease of telecommuting and what's known as \"the Airbnb effect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211350\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11211350\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Boat mechanic Jared Fournier has been hopping from temporary home to temporary home since losing his rental to an Airbnb conversion back in September.\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/JaredFournier-e1481234194549-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boat mechanic Jared Fournier has been hopping from temporary home to temporary home since losing his rental to an Airbnb conversion back in September. \u003ccite>(Amy Westervelt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boat mechanic Jared Fournier had to leave his rental in September when the landlord decided to turn it into an Airbnb. The place now generates the same amount in a week that Fournier paid each month. \"I get it, I guess, but you look around here and there are so many vacation rentals sitting empty all the time. You'd think they would want the steady monthly income.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he's renting a room from someone who went on vacation for a month. \"So it's very temporary,\" he says. \"After that I need to figure something out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various ideas are being considered to address the workforce housing issue -- everything from permitting changes to a local fund to provide financing for smaller, more affordable housing options. But it's a problem with dozens of layers and it won't be an easy fix. In the meantime, winter is coming.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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