WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The Lahaina home Tamara Akiona shared with 10 people was never quiet, and she loved it that way. Akiona, her husband, uncle, stepdaughter, and her best friend’s family filled the house once owned by her grandparents, with four bedrooms, two living rooms and a spacious backyard.  She remembers the happy anticipation of hearing the front door open and not knowing who’d come home. Someone was always in the kitchen cooking. Ne…

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A Maui program kept Lahaina families together by paying households to take in fire survivors

As many as one-third of people displaced by the August 2023 Maui fires wound up in the homes of friends and family in the weeks after the disaster

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As many as one-third of people displaced by the August 2023 Maui fires wound up in the homes of friends and family in the weeks after the disaster.

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Associated Press WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — As many as one-third of people displaced by the August 2023 Maui fires wound up in the homes of friends and family in the weeks after the disaster. It was a natural solution on an island already struggling with a housing crisis and where values like generosity and family are deeply rooted. A first-of-its-kind disaster-relief program supported those families by paying up to $2,000 per month to people who to…

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WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) -- The Lahaina home Tamara Akiona shared with 10 people was never quiet, and she loved it that way.

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The Lahaina home Tamara Akiona shared with 10 people was never quiet, and she loved it that way.Akiona, her husband, uncle, stepdaughter, and her best friend’s family filled the house once owned by her grandparents, with four bedrooms, two living rooms and a spacious backyard. She remembers the happy anticipation of hearing the front door open and not knowing who'd come home. Someone was always in the kitchen cooking. Neighbors gathered in the e…

A Maui program kept Lahaina families together by paying households to take in fire survivors

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