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

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 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