A plan to regulate short-term rentals on Maui gets pushback

Maui Mayor Richard Bissen is proposing phasing out 7,000 short-term rentals on the island. This comes as an affordable housing crisis continues there that’s been exacerbated by last summer’s wildfires. Critics of the plan are promising a legal fight.

Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes speaks with Matthew Leonard, a reporter for the Honolulu Civil Beat.