Hawaii lawmakers advance vacation rental bill to final votes
by Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser— A bill that gives counties the clear authority to regulate short-term vacation rentals, including the power to ban them, unanimously passed out of a joint House-Senate conference committee today ahead of a vote by the full House and Senate next week.
Honolulu Star-Advertiser—Key committee passes Hawaii vacation rentals bill. The full House and Senate will now consider the question of whether to allow each county to determine how — if at all — to regulate short-term vacation rentals on their islands, including the possibility of outlawing them.
SFGATE—Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis. HONOLULU (AP) — A single mother of two, Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick's home to white dust, the cheapest rental she could find for her family and dogs cost $10,000 a month. Chadwick, a fine-dining server, moved to Florida where she could stretch her homeowners insurance dollars. She’s worried Maui’s exorbitant rental prices, driven in...
ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos—Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis. An acute housing shortage hitting fire survivors on the Hawaiian island of Maui is squeezing out residents even as they try to overcome the loss of loved ones, their homes and their community