On Friday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green threatened out-of-state home owners in Maui who resist helping the victims from the recent devastating wildfires with a vacation rental moratorium.
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green on Friday said he wants 3,000 condos and homes that are normally rented to Maui tourists converted to long-term housing for displaced wildfire survivors who are now living in hotels. t.co/n24sP1vfnn
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Green said he would “drop the hammer” and use emergency orders to force them to turn their short-term rentals marketed to tourists into long-term units for those who lost their homes to the wildfires.
From The Hill:
The town of Lahaina on western Maui was nearly entirely wiped out by the wildfire, and 100 people were killed. It was the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in at least a century.
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