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A risk assessment of potential Hawaii affordable- housing losses presented Tuesday at the Legislature is overblown, according to a state agency that helps finance such housing.
Hawaii is at risk of losing nearly 12,000 affordable homes over the next two decades, according to a study commissioned by a nonprofit promoting action to prevent such loss.
Public and private agencies are scrambling to get residents into housing in the wake of fires that damaged or destroyed more than 2,000 structures in Lahaina an