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In 1921, the federal government of the United States set aside approximately 200,000 acres (810 km 2) in the Territory of Hawaii as a land trust for homesteading by Native Hawaiians. The law mandating this, passed by the U.S. Congress on July 9, 1921, was called the "Hawaiian Homes Commission Act" (HHCA) and, with amendments, is still in effect ...
Feb. 18—The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is returning, in a big way, to a practice of issuing unconventional land leases to beneficiaries on its homestead waitlist. The state ...
Under DHHL’s homestead program, beneficiaries, who must be at least half Hawaiian, receive 99-year land leases that cost $1 a year and must pay for or build their own home.
There are now nearly 10, 000 beneficiaries on Hawaiian homestead lands and another 27, 000 on the waitlist. In 1991 the Legislature passed a law allowing beneficiaries of the Hawaiian Homes ...
STATE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS State Hawaiian Home Lands Director Kali Watson greets Ellabelle Kaiama, one of 52 DHHL beneficiaries to receive leases at the 161-lot Pu ‘u hona project.
Papakōlea is a small community located in Honolulu, Hawaii, US. [1] It is notable for being sloped on the Punchbowl Crater. [2] It is also one of the Hawaiian homestead lands, [3] [4] created by the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1921. The area is primarily residential.
Wailua Homesteads is located on the eastern side of the island of Kauai at (22.064507, -159.383875 It is bordered to the north by Kapaa, to the east by Wailua, and to the south by the Wailua River and its north fork.
Jul. 22—Plaintiffs in a nearly 24-year-old class-action lawsuit against the state over Hawaiian homestead claims should begin to receive their share of a $328 million settlement in September ...