PART 1: Of the Hawaii’s roughly 565,000 total housing units, 30,000 are listed as shortterm vacation rentals, meaning about 5% of local housing units operate as tourist accommodations.

These are units that experts say could be used to house the people of Lahaina and locals in need of housing across the islands as whole.

To break down the impact of shortterm vacation rentals on Hawaii’s housing market, Justin Tyndall of the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization joined HNN’s “The Debrief.”

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