Hawaiians and longtime Lāhainā residents worry the aftermath of the wildfires that incinerated much of the former capital of the Hawaiian
Along Maui’s west coast, what were modest starter homes in the early 2000s now sell for $1 million.
“So a lot of more recent arrivals — typically from the American mainland who have more money and can buy homes at a higher price — were to some extent displacing local families in Lāhainā,” Sterling Higa, head of Housing Hawai’i’s Future, a nonprofit organization advocating for more housing in Hawai’i, told the“We need to be doing wellness checks for disaster survivors, not just for the first month, but even for years out,” Ing added. “If you look at the far right, they’re doing this.
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