NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- With a housing crisis that has priced out many Native Hawaiians living there for decades, concerns are rising that the state could become the latest example of "climate gentrification," when it becomes harder for local people to afford housing in safer areas amid an ongoing fire disaster, reported The Associated Press (AP) on Friday.
Maui County, where the wildfire concentrated, is one of the "scariest opportunities for gentrification" because of "the very high land values and the intense level of trauma and the people who are unscrupulous who will come in to try to take advantage of that," said Jennifer Gray Thompson, CEO of After the Fire USA, a wildfire recovery and resiliency organization in U.S. West.
