I had no idea about this, but did manage to find an article from this summer on it: https://abcnews.go.com/US/maui-strong-808-maui-fire-survivor...

You're right though, not much mainstream media traction on this story.

> FEMA has allocated $197 million to three companies, none of which are based in Hawaii, to administer the Direct Lease program

Smells of borderline corruption from the get-go. What a shit show.