Development brings affordable housing to Kings Beach
By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal
The King’s Beach area at Lake Tahoe marked its first affordable housing development as county and regional officials broke ground Monday at the project’s site.
The King’s Beach Housing NOW! project will consist of 77 units built on five separate sites. The apartments will be deed restricted for low-income residents whose earnings fall between 30 percent to 60 percent of the area’s median income. The Placer County median income for a family of four is $73,100.
The average rent will average between $400 and $1,200 a month.
“This project creates badly needed affordable housing for the year-round resort workers who help make this economy tick,” said Jennifer Montgomery, Placer County supervisor, in a statement. “It will help revitalize Kings Beach, a neighborhood that’s struggled with overcrowding and unsafe housing for years.”
Why is it so hard to tell the truth?
This housing is taxpayer subsidized, kind of like welfare. Anything is affordable if someone else is paying the bill.
I don’t mind paying other peoples’ bills.
I do.
It’s kind of a vicious cycle. If we don’t provide minimum wage service workers with affordable housing, they will either not come, or their employer will have to pay them more. Then the price of everything will go up, and we will not be able to afford to enjoy the services provided by them, and neither will the tourists, so less of them will come, so less of the rest of us who rely on tourist generated income will be able to live here, so our towns will shrink more, so less choices around town, as businesses go under.
Hmmm, maybe I personally would rather subsidize the low income service worker, as it will save me more in the long run? Not sure, as there are so many factors that can add to this issue.
We have a lot of low income housing options for locals, but I’d be curious as to a count of how many units. I suppose it’d never be enough in this economy.
My uncle moved to Aspen in the 70s and immediately saw a need for housing for the town’s employees. He was on the planning commission and made it his job to build units….of course, people in Aspen, as many in Tahoe feel, “we need the housing, but not in my backyard.” You drive into Aspen now and there are several employee housing units that bear my uncle’s name. Of course, they couldn’t get the residents of Aspen to get them in town so they are just outside city limits. Buses supported by the resorts transport the workers.
30year local–Your uncles name is….?
Truscott?
Smuggler?
Marlot?
Were the only ones I could find
His name was Harry Truscott :)