December 8, 2016
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. 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. “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.”…
Source: https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/08/tahoe-residents-forced-out-by-high-costs-the-airbnb-effect/
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