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Bill Chappell

Pop-up houses create a new village after Maui fire disaster

Modular container homes are set up in Kahului, Hawaii. A pop-up village of the buildings is in the process of being created by a local organization, the Family Life Center. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

MAUI, Hawaii — Natural disasters create a desperate rush to find housing for people who lost their homes. After Maui's wildfires, that effort got an unusual boost — from a massive military jet that delivered pop-up homes.

Now the modular units are transforming a grassy 10-acre field into 85 homes, with housing for around 250 people, according to the Family Life Center, a social service group working to create the Ohana Hope Village.

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