Two Years After Wildfire, Maui Homeowners Face A New Threat: Foreclosure

Two years later, Maui wildfire survivors are still rebuilding their homes and lives

Of the more than 2,000 homes destroyed in the wildfires, only 50 have been rebuilt. Meanwhile, mental health has become its own crisis.

Two Years After Wildfire, Maui Homeowners Face A New Threat: Foreclosure

A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lahaina despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo and investors eager to own a piece of Hawaiʻi.

Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure

As a Native Hawaiian teenager growing up in West Maui, Mikey Burke couldn’t wait to leave. “All my life, I thought I was bigger than this town, bigger than the village, and I was going to go somewhere and make something of myself,” she said.  Then she went to college in Los Angeles, where she was just one person among millions navigating the city’s crowded freeways and squinting through its smog. She would go entire days without anyone looking h…

Two years after Maui wildfires rebuilding lags, residents lose hope

(The Lion) — Two years after wildfires ravaged Maui, killing more than 100 people, destroying businesses and leaving thousands without homes, rebuilding efforts remain frustratingly slow, and more needs to be done to keep people from abandoning the island and losing hope. That’s the assessment from a free-market think tank calling for reforms to speed up the rebuilding process. It also wants the Hawaiian island to expand housing overall, address…

Two years After Wildfire, Maui Homeowners Face A New Threat: Foreclosure A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lahaina despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo and investors eager to own a piece of Hawaiʻi.

Two years After Wildfire, Maui Homeowners Face A New Threat: Foreclosure