Central to the next phase of rebuilding Lahaina is the long-term recovery plan and development by Maui County.

We could help unleash private capital for home construction by guaranteeing and securitizing the construction of one to four-unit starter homes.

Aloha to everybody. And I join my colleagues up here in saying a very special mahalo to each and all of you for coming here today.

Our priority was to make sure that we focus on the residential side to get our families back home.

We would love to just actually see us get to a thousand temporary units built here.

the Federal Government's total expenditures are closing in on $3 billion or in that range in totality.

this is not over by a long shot.

It is also about how we build housing people can afford.

I am very humbled and honored and grateful to be a part of this community as the Representative but really very blessed that we have these leaders here today.

I am very grateful. And now, please, I hope you will both consider yourselves part of our extended ohana.

To sustain that recovery, we will also need continued Federal support.

Getting this recovery right over the next months, years and, quite frankly, as I have said, generations, will require us as a local, state, and Federal Government, and as a community as a whole, to stay focused on the future.

Thank you, Representative Porter. And mahalo, Mr. Chairman, for holding this field hearing today.

the Federal Government and the Federal agencies are ultimately people, and people have motivations.

This fire ripped back the curtain for how we have struggled to just survive here in Hawaii from a housing perspective.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, while this hearing may be slightly different from others that have attended hearings here in the state legislature and the city council, and there is no formal period for public comment, we want to be able…

As we continue our work to meet these urgent needs, we must never forget that Lahaina is not Lahaina without her people.

I will speak all 102 names lost and the names of the two missing on the Floor of Congress.