Free Renterʻs Rights Training offers education to local tenants and landlords, Oct. 21, 2026
Local tenants and landlords are invited to attend a Renterʻs Rights Training on Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 5–7 p.m. This free, community-centered event will provide residents with vital information about housing rights, disaster recovery responsibilities, strategies for addressing housing issues, and resources for navigating landlord-tenant challenges.
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Maui County condo sales jump in September as single-family sales decline
Maui County condominium sales rose 56.5% in September compared with a year earlier, while single-family home sales fell 7.1% and their median price dropped 11% to $1.15 million, according to the Realtors Association of Maui. The association reported 72 condominium sales last month, up from 46 in September 2025. The median sales price edged up 1.1% to […]
After successful completion, COVID-19 homeowner assistance fund program closes
The County of Maui Department of Housing announced the successful completion of the Maui Homeowner Assistance Fund Program, which provided critical financial assistance to Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi homeowners experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hawaiian Council announces Host Housing Support Program for families displaced by recent storms
Qualifying hosts can receive $500 per displaced person each month, up to a maximum of $2,000 per host household per month. This short-term assistance will be available as funding allows to help ease the financial burden on households providing a safe place for displaced friends and family to stay.
Maui County launches housing navigator program for wildfire survivors as state ends case management
Maui County began a housing navigator program Thursday for households affected by the August 2023 wildfires. It takes over case management services that the state had been providing, the county announced.
Nareit Foundation provides $100,000 grants for rebuilding homes in Lahaina, foster youth housing on Oʻahu and Habitat
The Nareit Foundation awarded a $100,000 grants Thursday to Habitat for Humanity Maui to help rebuild fire-devastated Lahaina and for the Residential Youth Services & Empowerment for ongoing renovation of a building in Makiki to serve as a safe transitional home for former foster youths and young adults with children.
Construction begins on 60 Front Street homes lost in the Lahaina wildfire
Homeowners and project partners gathered today to mark the groundbreaking for the rebuild of Lahaina Residential, a 60-home community at 1034 Front Street lost in the August 2023 wildfire.
Maui Council refers 32 shoreline condo complexes’ hotel-rezoning to Maui Planning Commission
The Maui County Council voted 5-4 on Tuesday to ask the Maui Planning Commission to consider rezoning 32 vacation rental condominium complexes in Māʻalaea, Kīhei and West Maui from apartment to hotel use. The vote came a week after the commission recommended against most of an earlier batch of properties. The action on Resolution 26-129, […]
Hotel or housing? Battle drags on over which Maui properties should have short-term rentals banned
More than 3,400 units are up for hotel zoning that would help them avoid the ban. The Maui Planning Commission said no to most, but it is the Maui County Council that has the final say.
Rising Hawaiʻi rents intensify costs for federal housing voucher program, known as Section 8
About 12,000 low-income households across Hawaiʻi, including Maui wildfire survivors, rely on Housing Choice Vouchers, commonly known as Section 8, to help pay rent, according to a recent study by the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization. But now the program is undergoing increasing financial strain as rising rents make it much more expensive to help local families.
County Department of Housing seeks applications for FY 2028 Affordable Housing Fund projects
The County of Maui Department of Housing is seeking applications for affordable housing projects that will be funded by its Affordable Housing Fund in Fiscal Year 2028. The projects must propose housing for families earning 140% and below the County of Maui’s median family income.
Maui County home and condo sales increase in August as median prices decline
Maui County’s housing market saw increased sales activity in August, with closed sales rising for both single-family homes and condominiums compared to the same month last year, while median sales prices declined, according to the REALTORS Association of Maui. In August, 64 homes sold for a median price of $1.2 million, while 68 condo unit sold for a median of $564,950.
Community invitation to meeting on proposed Hale Makua Workforce Housing project, Sept. 9
Hale Makua Health Services invites the public to attend a meeting regarding its proposed workforce housing project at Maui Lani. The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026 at Maui Economic Opportunity’s Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Family Center in Wailuku.
Maui Council panel votes 5-4 to adopt sea-level-rise criteria for apartment rezoning in new hotel districts
The Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee voted 5-4 last week to adopt criteria for which apartment-zoned vacation rental properties can be recommended to the Maui Planning Commission for hotel-district rezoning, tying eligibility to how deeply a property sits within the county’s Sea Level Rise Exposure Area.
Construction underway for new 35-unit Kehalani Apartments in Wailuku; Completion set for January 2028
Ground breaking was recently held for the Kehalani Apartments, a new 35-unit affordable rental community in Wailuku for households earning 60% or less of the Area Median Income, with construction slated for completion in January 2028.
Public hearing scheduled Thursday for Hoʻonani Village affordable-housing project
A public hearing on bills to update the Maui Island Plan and Wailuku-Kahului Community Plan for Central Maui’s Hoʻonani Village Mixed Use Development is scheduled for Thursday at 4:30 p.m. online and in the Council Chamber, Councilmember Tamara Paltin announced today.
Final EIS accepted for 652-unit Mākena Mauka housing development
This plan reduces the 900 housing units proposed in the EISPN to 652 housing units, including 109 onsite residential workforce housing units mauka of Mākena Alanui Road.
Hotel rezoning amendments would shrink housing inventory envisioned by vacation rental phase-out, critics say
Three amendments proposed by Maui County Council members would add 16 properties—some overlapping between proposals—to a list of apartment-zoned properties used as vacation rentals and slated for rezoning into newly created hotel-zoned districts. The move would further shrink the pool of units that the much-debated Bill 9 would convert to long-term housing, opponents of the resolutions argued.
Condo sales climb, single-family home sales slow in Maui County in July
Condominium sales in Maui County continued to strengthen in July while single-family home sales cooled compared to a year earlier, according to data released by the Realtors Association of Maui.
Appeals court orders Maui Planning Commission to revisit preparation of an environmental review for Honuaʻula project
The Hawaiʻi Intermediate Court of Appeals ordered the Maui Planning Commission Thursday to reconsider whether developers of the Honuaʻula master-planned community in South Maui—formerly known as Wailea 670—need to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement, although the court upheld the commission on other points raised by groups challenging the project. In a summary disposition order […]
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