Tulsi Gabbard

They've received some, but the bureaucracy, like the short answer is the bureaucracy of the government, FEMA in particular, has been extremely constraining and limiting in what people have been able to actually get.

The rebuild process hasn't even begun.

Because the cleanup is still ongoing.

The layers of toxic material are...

There were underground fuel storage tanks underneath the gas station that were incinerated.

And so the cleanup has required digging many, many layers below the surface to get out all of the toxic material before people can begin to go in and start to apply for the permits that they'll need to start rebuilding their homes.

That is the question.

Some of them have been, you know, they converted a hotel into kind of a long-term place for people to live at the state level.

Oh, man.

Staying with family.

A lot of people have been forced to leave because, you know, it's expensive.

It's expensive to live in Hawaii.

And there have not been very good solutions.

The governor...

He was encouraging homeowners who have vacation homes in Hawaii, like, hey, turn your vacation rental home into a long-term rental so that these families can, kids in school and they're like, let them come and actually just rent your house for the next year or whatever.

Not very many people were willing to do that.

And so he took action to essentially limit or stop them from being able to be short-term rentals.

So that then, you know, okay, well, either you're not going to rent it at all or you're going to rent it to a family that's been displaced.

But it's been and continues to be a very, very tough road for these families and these kids.

I am probably aware of all of them.