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Because you seem like a person wanting to learn and not a bot, here is a video by John Oliver, 6 years ago, about the actual local situation in Everest.
The causes will be varied, and the housing market is not threatened in Everest because tourists don't use houses in Everest the way tourists use houses in Europe (Airbnb), but they're is always incredible damage in whatever thing, local owners use tourist money, to fuck local workers about, not caring for the Shit and damage left behind. In the case is Everest, that Shit is literal. In other places, that Shit is off-season ghost towns, underfunded schools and local necessities, and corrupt local politicians.
This is just capitalism by design, it's not unique to tourism. It IS the owner's fault, not the tourist's, but the tourist buys the meal that the local no longer can afford, because tourists by definition go be tourists in cheaper countries than their own. Do you understand what that means? The locals that serve the tourists, get so little money in comparison, that it's not even funny.