Sen. Brian Schatz is shown here in this July 2022 photo. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER file photo

The Maui News

The Hawai’i Public Housing Authority will receive more than $35 million in federal funding to rebuild and restore federal public housing facilities that were damaged and destroyed during the Maui fires last year, according to a press release from senator Brian Schatz. The new funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will help restore the David Malo Circle and Pi’ilani Elderly Homes and Community Center facilities to pre-disaster design and function.

“This funding will help restore dozens of low-income rental units that were destroyed in the fires as fast as possible,” Schatz said in the press release. “Housing remains the number one priority in Lāhainā’s recovery, and we’re doing everything we can to bring federal resources to support.”

A combined 60 low-income rental units at David Malo Circle and Pi’ilani Elderly Homes and Community Center were completely destroyed during the fires.