Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis

HONOLULU — Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two 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 and her now-husband could find for their family and dogs cost $10,000 a month.

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Here are the big players buying property on the Broadway corridor

The Broadway corridor north of downtown San Antonio and into Alamo Heights is constantly in flux with developers buying up the sites of historic restaurants and laying out plans for a 20-acre mixed-use development across from Pearl. One has to wonder who exactly is buying up this prime real estate along this corridor that was at the center of a dispute between the city and the state.

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