The American Red Cross says it is continuing to negotiate with hotel and condo properties to extend sheltering program contracts.

Gov. Josh Green is proposing using taxpayer and private funds to build new housing and to pay home owners well above market value if they rent long term. Short-term rentals would simply be banned.

A deadline is looming for many fire survivors but right now letʻs take a collective moment of grace and aloha.

UPDATE: Mayor Richard Bissen called for "shared sacrifice" but said a moratorium on vacation rentals would likely bring costly legal challenges and unintended consequences.

Mayor Richard Bissen says Maui is exploring options to convert short-term vacation rentals for tourists into long-term housing options for displaced locals.

Dallas-based real estate developer Paul Cheng has already received $18 million in county subsidies for his Pulelehua housing development.

With most of the town's residents uprooted by the wildfire, a brutal housing market has made it hard for those ready to move out of hotel rooms.

Kula residents readily acknowledge their losses are nowhere near the level experienced by Lahaina wildfire survivors but they share many of the same frustrations.

A rebuilt Lahaina will have to take into account not only societal goals and grand visions but the wishes of many individual owners.

Federal, state and county officials provided a joint update on the recovery process.