Cheap rent and questionable use; a look at the State Parks employee housing program Caitlin Conrad, KSBW FacebookTwitterEmail CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. — How would like you to pay $255 a month to live at Point Lobos? Or $106 monthly to live at Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park? The going rates to live on prime real estate in the Monterey District range from $56 to $440 a month. The employee housing program is a longstanding benefit of working for the California State Parks Department. The department has determined that some public property is better served by housing government works than keeping it for public use, but in the Monterey Parks District homes that were given with the expressed purpose of public use have been turned into employee housing.