A proposed plan in Maui would phase out 7,000-plus short-term rentals to address housing shortages. Rental owners say their property values will tank. One said his family may have to leave Maui.

Governor Josh Green has claimed that the State will move 10,000 homes from the vacation rental market to long-term housing ...

The Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee surely caught some observers by surprise last week by voting to move its long-debated, “get transient rentals out of residential neighborhoods” ...

A luxury apartment-hotel, a $4 million beach house and condominiums at a resort golf course don’t typically constitute workforce housing in Hawaii, but they are targets of a plan on Maui aimed at ...

Maui County currently allows over 16,000 units in hotel-zoned areas to operate as short-term rentals (less than 180 days). These are mostly in resort areas like Kaanapali, Kapalua, and Wailea. There’s ...

Feb. 26—Gov. Josh Green had threatened to ban short-term rentals if owners of 3, 000 Maui vacation rentals did not provide stable housing by Friday. A part-time Maui couple's decision to convert their ...

LAHAINA, MAUI — On Thursday, the Maui County Council gave first approval to an ordinance that would ban 7,000 short term vacation rentals by 2030. The ostensible purpose is to provide housing for ...

KAHULUI–On Thursday, the Travel Technology Association and Hawaii economic consultant Kloninger & Sims released a study on the economic and fiscal impacts of the short-term rental market in Maui ...

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