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Truckee property owners who rent homes to local workers for at least three years will be eligible to receive up to $26,000 in public subsidies

The Rooted Renters program is a collaborative effort between the Town of Truckee and Placemate, Inc., a leader in creating housing solutions for vacation communities

The "Lease to Locals" pilot program provides up to $20,000 to property owners who convert their short-term rentals to year-round rentals

The proposed program aims to establish a new housing initiative that ensures the stability of workforce rental units and maintains affordable rental prices for an extended period.

Grant incentives for converting short-term rentals to long-term leases could shift to businesses to spark more employee housing

Political action group ACK•Now has launched a new program to pay property owners for converting housing units into year-round rentals for local residents, a move intended to combat Nantucket’s affordable housing crisis.

Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s Housing Action Task Force, members heard from Kai Frolich, co-founder of Lease to Locals, a program that uses grants to incentivize property owners to rent out underutilized housing units to year-round residents.

Ketchum appears on track to continue its Lease to Locals program for at least another year after the City Council this week supported extending the program, which provides cash incentives to homeowners who convert their properties to housing for seasonal or long-term housing for local workers.

Amber Kennedy worked at a pizza shop for the summer last year in Ketchum, Idaho. She was hoping to stick around in the resort town...

Program offers cash incentives up to $12,000...

Eagle County wants its property owners to choose to rent to the local workforce instead of becoming vacation rentals...

Some mountain resort towns in other states are using a carrot — a very tasty carrot — rather than a stick to convert short-term rentals and empty homes into housing for hundreds of local workers.