Good Morning Truckee February 14th: The Housing Challenge

Rescheduled from January!

The housing challenge is one of the most complex and vexing challenges this community has ever faced. As a neutral convener, the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation (TTCF) brought together several resources, community and media partners to start a conversation around regional housing, moving local leaders to fund a regional study.

The study brought together data from Truckee, Placer County, and Nevada County to paint a broad picture of the issues. And while the conversations, policies, and solutions are still ahead of us, TTCF has committed not only funding, but continued leadership to ensure that the conversation continues and solutions are found. Stacy Caldwell, CEO of the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation will share highlights of the regional housing study and its value to tackling this challenge.

In a related topic, the short-term rental and house-sharing has grown rapidly in recent years. This has created challenges such as ensuring these rentals are paying their Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), in addition to creating nuisances in neighborhoods and taking much-needed housing off the market. Addressing these challenges will be Ulrik Binzer, CEO and Founder of Host Compliance, the leading provider of short-term rental compliance monitoring and enforcement solutions to local governments. He will talk about Host Compliance, what they do, what they have discovered in Truckee and compare it to other communities they are working with. The Town of Truckee contracted with Host Compliance in July.

Hirsh Jain, Senior Manager, Global Public Policy for Airbnb will also be speaking. Jain helps craft legislative and regulatory approaches to home sharing in cities around the world. He will provide an overview of what Airbnb does, the growth in the company and industry, Airbnb’s role in the growing shared economy, an overview of their corporate philosophy, some things they are doing in communities that are concerned about the impact short term rentals are having on housing availability, and where the industry and Airbnb are headed.

Good Morning Truckee offers ONLINE PRE-REGISTRATION at Truckee.com.  Breeze through the check-in line to get breakfast and a seat faster. You can also purchase multi-packs of tickets for your convenience – which can also get you checked-in quicker. And, as always, you can still purchase your ticket at the door with cash, credit card or check.

Good Morning Truckee is a community forum to provide timely and relevant information on a variety of topics and create a networking opportunity and is open to the public – everyone is invited. It is held the second Tuesday of every month at Truckee Tahoe Airport from 7:00-8:30am. Ticket price for general public is $12; Truckee Chamber members $10 and includes a continental breakfast and raffle ticket.

Good Morning Truckee is presented by the Truckee Chamber of Commerce in partnership with sponsors Tahoe Forest Health System; Law Offices of Porter Simon; Dickson Realty Truckee Tahoe; Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation; Holdrege & Kull; Sierra Sun; 101.5FM Truckee Tahoe Radio; Truckee Tahoe Airport District; Town of Truckee, and Chef Ron Allen. Additional sponsorships opportunities are available.

For more information, contact the Truckee Chamber of Commerce at 530-587-8808 or e-mail info@truckee.com.