“…Scott Hansen, executive director of Maui Rescue Mission, has more short-term consideration in mind. At the Lahaina Gateway shopping center, Hansen stood outside a small trailer housing a shower and laundry, holding the door closed for someone bathing inside.
He’s bracing for a new wave of people displaced by the fire.
With Maui experiencing a housing crisis even before last week’s fire, Hansen said he’d like to see the county require owners of unoccupied vacation rentals or second homes to open their doors to those newly displaced as well as people chronically living on the street.
But in the meantime, he’s just trying to keep up with new realities of life in the aftermath of the fire.
‘One guy keeps asking for a bus pass to go back to Lahaina. And we keep telling him, there is no more Lahaina. It’s taking awhile to sink in,’ Hansen said.” READ FULL ARTICLE HERE.
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