( ) -q– UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “overwhelming the island.” The mayor of Maui County in Hawaii wants to stop owners of thousands of vacation properties from renting to visitors. [CutID: <Cuts> MAUI-RENTALS-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 24s Title: MAUI-RENTALS-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: overwhelming the island] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The units in question account for about half of […]
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Maui’s leaders consider restricting vacation rentals loved by tourists
( ) -q– UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “overwhelming the island.”
The mayor of Maui County in Hawaii wants to stop owners of thousands of vacation properties from renting to visitors.
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Time: 24s
Title: MAUI-RENTALS-house-q-TUEam
Out-cue: overwhelming the island]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The units in question account for about half of Maui’s legally operated short-term rentals.
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VERBATIM: The mayor wants instead to have the units rented long-term to people who live on Maui to address a chronic housing shortage that intensified after last August’s deadly wildfire. His proposal faces multiple legislative and bureaucratic hurdles. The outcome will shape whether Maui continues to cater to tourists or whether it will curb tourism to address complaints that visitors are overwhelming the island.