#ALICE households
Free school meals coming to more Hawaiʻi students under new law
Beginning next school year, more Hawaiʻi students will receive free meals under a new law aimed at addressing hunger in classrooms and supporting working families.
Kamaʻāina Credit program poised for approval as part of Council’s budget package
With first reading of the Maui County Council’s $1.56 billion budget set for this week Friday, one of the line items up for approval in the fiscal 2026 budget is $12 million for Maui United Way’s Countywide ALICE Initiative: Kamaʻāina Credit program. The initiative aims to help residents who’ve been referred to as ALICE households. […]
Bills to curb rent increases referred to committees, but no hearings scheduled yet
Bills have been referred to committees in both chambers of the Hawaiʻi State Legislature to limit the amount landlords can raise rents for tenants at a time of desperate housing shortages and renters having few, if any, options if they can’t afford demands for higher monthly rent payments.
Lahaina housing: Former tenants eager to return, daunted by four-year wait
Former residents of the Lahaina Surf and Front Street Apartments — destroyed in the August 2023 wildfires — cheered when they were reassured that both affordable housing complexes would be rebuilt and that they, as residents at the time of the fires, would be given priority to return to redeveloped homes.
