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The Invasion of Lake Tahoe

What Next | Daily News and Analysis
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
Episode • Apr 27, 2021 • 23m

Tech workers from the Bay Area happily left their expensive apartments for Lake Tahoe during the pandemic, hoping to get some fresh air and a change of scenery. Towns around the lake soon became "Zoom-towns" -- areas where remote workers moved in and never left, raising prices and driving out longtime residents. Now, locals are fighting back.

Guest: Rachel Levin, San Francisco-based journalist.

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