Housing Buyout Program News Today

County’s Voluntary Housing Buyout Program Announces Necessary Adjustments for Phase 2 Buyouts

Owners of secondary homes damaged, destroyed or isolated by the 2018 Kilauea eruption will get smaller payouts than expected after Hawaii County adjusted the terms of its housing buyout program.

The Hilo Hawaiian Music Festival tops our Top 20 list of things to do this week, with a lineup of musicians that includes Mark Yamanaka, Ben Kaili, Sonny Lim and Kevin Brown. Find our comprehensive listing HERE.

‘We have an eruption,” announced Ikaika Marzo on Facebook Live late in the day of May 3, 2018, as he stood on Mohala Street in Leilani Estates, where the first of 24 fissures began spewing molten lava during the historic 2018 Kilauea eruption in Lower Puna.

Phase 3 Applications Now Open For Voluntary Housing Buyout Program

County Begins Accepting Phase 2 Kīlauea Recovery Buyout Applications on November 1

Housing Buyout Program Environmental Assessment Underway