Green prohibited such offers by signing an emergency proclamation on Aug. 19 aimed at preventing land in the historic coastal community from flowing into the hands of outside buyers.
The town of 12,000 people was home to many who worked in hotels and restaurants inAbout 6,000 people are staying in hotels and vacation rentals while waiting for the toxic waste left by the fire to be cleaned up and rebuilding to begin.
Lahaina resident Melody Lukela-Singh said she was disappointed the governor didn’t impose an outright ban as he initially said. “You know, it’s the only thing that we have left,” said Lukela-Singh, who is Native Hawaiian. She knows of three families, all Filipino, who are selling their homes and want to move away because they can’t handle the stress of seeing Lahaina burned to the ground.
The situation presents two competing interests, said Robert Thomas, the director of property rights litigation at California-based Pacific Legal Foundation.The other is the government has an interest in making sure people aren’t preyed upon. One possibility would be the state forming a land trust to buy properties from families who could repurchase them later.
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