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The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands selected 60 beneficiaries April 17 to rent homes being built on Hawaii island, with a purchase option for tenants in 2036. The neighborhood within DHHL's ...
1921–1960: the Hawaiian Homes Commission (a federal agency) 1960–present: the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL, a state agency) [2] That is, responsibility was transferred to the state level after Hawaii became a state in 1959. [3]
Oct. 24—Two advocacy groups for existing and future Hawaiian homesteaders are challenging a tentative state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands plan to spend a recently appropriated historic $600 ...
Jan. 14—Hawaiian homestead leaders have been hosting the 36th annual Hawaiian Home Lands Leadership Convention this weekend in the first leadership reconvening since 2019. The convention, which ...
In 1893, pro-American elements in Hawaii overthrew the monarchy and formed the Republic of Hawaii, which the U.S. annexed in 1898. [6] In 1921, in order to make amends for injustices associated with the overthrow and annexation, the US created the Hawaiian Homes Commissions Act which set aside 200,000 acres of land for the use of homelands for Native Hawaiians of 50% blood quantum or more.
Jan. 24—A Native Hawaiian homestead development pipeline has swelled to about 6,000 lots costing $1.2 billion midway into a three-year effort to use a historic $600 million appropriation from ...
In May 2011, William Aila, Director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources said, "eventually the department will need four times as many conservation officers as it does now to properly serve all the enforcement expectations of the department, which has jurisdiction over all state lands and the near-shore waters". [5]
Afterward, the land and infrastructure will go to the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to provide homes for its beneficiaries. FEMA, meanwhile, has secured a lease with HHFDC to develop 169 ...