TRUCKEE, CALIF. — Situated on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Truckee has long been a place where well-to-do San Francisco Bay area residents owned second homes, used only for the occasional ski weekend or summer retreat. Then came Airbnb, which took even more homes off the market as they were turned into short-term rentals. What drove things to a tipping point was the pandemic and the sudden release of remote workers no longer bound to their San Francisco desks.
