#disaster relief funds

DHS narrows Maui Relief Program eligibility to households with minor children starting Aug. 1

The Hawaiʻi Department of Human Services will limit new applications to the Maui Relief Program to households with dependent children under 18 beginning Aug. 1 as state disaster relief funding for the program nears exhaustion, the agency announced.

Gov. Green addresses housing, high cost of living, Maui wildfire recovery

In his third State of the State address, Gov. Josh Green took aim this morning at Hawaiʻi’s high cost of living, affordable housing, accessible health care and Maui’s ongoing recovery from the August 2023 wildfires.