August 15 deadline for South Lake Tahoe housing survey for employers and residents

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - There is just over a week left to answer a few questions on the Tahoe Prosperity Center's housing survey. They have teamed up with the South Lake Tahoe Endowment and numerous government jurisdictions, agencies and partners to better understand and plan for resident and employee housing needs now and in the future to support our community and economy.

The survey is only available online until August 15th so please complete the survey as soon as you can. They want to hear directly from residents and workers so they can learn things like:

• Do you like where you live or not?

• What is your ideal monthly rent and/or mortgage cost and desired size of home?
• What is your preferred neighborhood if housing was available at the size and price point you would prefer?

If you work here or live here already, please use this link to share your thoughts on housing in the South Shore - www.bit.ly/tahoesouth

All participants have the option to enter a drawing for five $100 gift cards to be used at the store of your choice. You must complete the survey to be entered and winners will be notified after August 15.

A Spanish survey is available online and you can pick up a printed Spanish survey at the Family Resource Center. If you need a Spanish survey and don’t have online access, please stop by the FRC at 3501-B Spruce Ave and pick one up or call them at 530-542-0740. All survey responses are 100% confidential!

They also want to hear from local business owners about:

• The number of employees you hire and job vacancies (if any),
• Where your employees live (so we can understand commuting patterns), and
• The extent to which local housing issues affect (or not) your ability to hire and retain employees.

If you own a business, please use this link to complete an employer survey - www.bit.ly/tahoeemployer

Although the Tahoe Prosperity Center works regionally around the entire Lake Tahoe Basin, the North Shore already completed a Housing Survey and Needs Assessment. For information on those efforts being led by the Mountain Housing Council on the North Shore, please visit - mountainhousingcouncil.org.

For more information about the South Shore Housing Survey, please contact Wendy Sullivan at wendy@wswconsult.com. We hope that you share these links with your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors so we can gather as much housing data for the assessment and make informed decisions about future housing needs.

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The Tahoe Prosperity Center is uniting Tahoe’s communities to strengthen regional prosperity. TPC facilitates the Housing Tahoe Partnership a collaborative effort to find solutions so that local residents and workers can live, work and play in Lake Tahoe. We convene key stakeholders, identify current barriers, recommend solutions and promote projects that provide local housing. Their goal is “if you have a job here locally, you should be able to live here locally.”