Hawaii is opening several investigations into people who allegedly have made unsolicited offers for property in the fire-stricken town of Lahaina in violation of a new emergency order.
Maryann Kobatake, left, poses with her sister Melody Lukela-Singh in the lobby of the hotel where they are staying in Lahaina, Hawaii, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, after losing their home in a deadly fire that destroyed their historic town.
The fear is they would leave Lahaina, or Maui or the state, take their culture and traditions with them and contribute to the ongoing exodus of Hawaii’s people to less expensive places to live.“We’ve seen that in a lot of different places in our country and in our world where people have lost everything but their land and someone swoops in and buys properties for pennies on the dollar,” Green said.
Earlier this month Green, a Democrat, said he wanted to impose a moratorium on land sales in Lahaina to prevent people from being displaced. But the governor said a blanket ban “may not be doable” and he didn’t want to prevent people who are considering property sales from initiating those conversations.Green said people have reported unwanted offers to his attorney general, although he did not reveal how many investigations have been opened.
“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. One is the U.S. Supreme Court has found people have a right to decide what to do with their property. The other is the government has an interest in making sure people aren’t preyed upon.
“Any option to prevent sales to someone who’s just swooping in to take advantage of one of our people, we’re open to,” Green said.
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Hawaii investigates unsolicited land offers as the state tries to keep Lahaina in local handsHawaii is opening several investigations into people who allegedly have made unsolicited offers for property in the fire-stricken town of Lahaina in violation of a new emergency order.
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Hawaii investigates unsolicited land offers as the state tries to keep Lahaina in local handsHawaii is opening several investigations into people who allegedly have made unsolicited offers for property in the fire-stricken town of Lahaina in violation of a new emergency order.
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Hawaii investigates unsolicited land offers as the state tries to keep Lahaina in local handsGreen 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.
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Hawaii investigates unsolicited land offers as the state tries to keep Lahaina in local handsHawaii is opening several investigations into people who allegedly have made unsolicited offers for property in the fire-stricken town of Lahaina in violation of a new emergency order
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Hawaii opens investigations into unsolicited property offers in fire-stricken LahainaEven before the Aug. 8 fire, Lahaina was a rapidly gentrifying town and there's been widespread concern since that Native Hawaiians and local-born residents...
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