To help people like Vierra, Native Hawaiian Matt Jachowski has used his skills as a software developer to create the website Maui Hale Match, which he hopes will make it easier for displaced fire survivors to connect with homeowners and landlords that have available units they can afford. But his data shows the affordability gap is huge.
With his family hosting two other families of Maui fire survivors, Matt Jachowski knows the struggle of trying to pair displaced residents with affordable housi
More than a week into the first phase of West Maui’s reopening, travel is now unrestricted, and hotels and short-term rental units from Kapalua to Kahana are cleared to let their properties out to tourists.
Charles Nahale spent days sleeping in his car and whatever chairs that he could find after fleeing for his life from the Lahaina fire that razed the old Hawaiian family compound where he rented an ohana unit on Front Street.