Ten affordable housing developments were lost in the Lahaina wildfire, including:

One State-owned property:

• Front Street Apartments (300 units)

Two properties owned by the Hawai’i Public Housing Authority:

• David Malo Circle (18 units)
• Piʻilani Homes (42 units)

Three County-owned properties:

• Komohana Hale (20 units)
• Lahaina Crossroads (20 units)
• Ka Hale A Ke Ola (94-unit homeless resource center)

Three properties owned by private nonprofit organizations:

• Hale Mahaolu Eono (35 units) that is jointly financed by HUD and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Lahaina Surf (112 units) (financed  by HUD)
• The Weinberg Court (62 units)

An additional project was privately held, but financed through Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), issued by the State and federal governments:

• Kaiāulu O Kupuohi (89 units)

Combined, these projects provided well over 700 units of affordable housing for Maui residents before the fire.  While these projects were an important supply of housing for Maui, there remains a great need for additional housing units to meet demand. This program supports the re-construction of these projects, and where feasible, expansion to include additional units and/ or new affordable housing projects to meet the continuing and growing need. The actual level of affordability is unknown at this time, though it is likely to be set at similar levels as the projects were pre-fire. These projects are identified as a “program” to signify the great need for affordable housing, and to, at a minimum, match the unit number and affordability levels that the former units had.

The Lahaina wildfire destroyed several hundred affordable housing units owned and/or financed by public entities. This program prioritizes replacement, and potentially expansion, of those lost units to account for the growing need of affordable housing in the area. The initial seven sites of this program remain in public ownership (except the LIHTC-funded project).

• Publicly funded housing is expensive  and complex to build
• Extensive permitting and financing must be obtained, likely well beyond what is available post-fire
• Each project will need to be located outside of known hazard areas and planned, permitted and constructed  as an individual project