The Conversation checked in with Trista Speer, a deputy director at DHS, about the Rental Assistance Program. So far, the department has been able to get half a dozen FEMA-ineligible families into more stable housing.
A state Department of Human Services program to housing families who have been displaced by the Maui fires but don’t qualify for federal assistance; a Filipino family searching for a home yet again after Lahaina fire; and the declining population and song of the Hawaiian honeycreeper ʻAkiapōlāʻau.