Hawaii’s Green threatens to ‘drop the hammer’ if vacation home owners won’t help wildfire victims
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green is threatening to enforce a vacation rental moratorium on homeowners who refuse to help wildfire victims. He plans to use emergency orders to convert short-term rentals into long-term units for those displaced by the recent wildfires in Maui. This will be done through a voluntary Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program which compensates homeowners for the difference in rental rates. About 6,300 people are still without homes, and the state aims to convert around 3,000 short-term rentals into long-term. The first 2,000 units will be covered by FEMA, with the remaining 1,000 covered by the state and philanthropic efforts.
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