Meanwhile, data compiled by the Hawaiʻi Insurance Division last year estimated that there could be a nearly $300 million gap ...

MORE: Maui wildfire survivors face mental health crisis months after tragedy In Lahaina, 25% of the region's housing units are listed as short-term rentals, according to the University of Hawaii ...

When the fires in Maui, Hawaii, tore through the historic ... down and really regulating these short-term rentals." Other ...

HONOLULU (AP) — An unprecedented proposal from Maui’s mayor to phase out vacation rentals would alleviate a severe housing shortage aggravated by the 2023 wildfires but would also shrink the economy, ...

Maui could pay a hefty price that includes losing close to 2,000 jobs and $1 billion in annual visitor spending for turning a special class of vacation rental units into housing.

HONOLULU — An unprecedented proposal from Maui ... rentals would alleviate a severe housing shortage aggravated by the 2023 wildfires but would also shrink the economy, University of Hawaii ...

The report from the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization said the conversion plan, proposed in 2024 by Maui Mayor Richard Bissen following the August 2023 Lahaina wildfire ...

Trey Gordner, one of the study’s authors and a researcher at the University of Hawaii Economic ... About one-third of Maui’s visitors use vacation rentals. They tend to cost less than hotels ...