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Hawaii Is Reviving a Risky Play to Get Hawaiians Into Homes
The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands aims to issue 7,000 leases for undeveloped projects by 2026 to reduce the waitlist of over 29,000 applicants, allowing lease inheritance at 25% Hawaiian blood quantum.
- This year the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands began issuing Undivided Interest awards to applicants under a revamped paper-lease program, responding to a waitlist of more than 29,000 people.
- Rooted in a decades-old practice, the approach traces to the mid-1980s and early 2000s revival and subsequent failures, while officials aim to remove beneficiaries from the list before they die and let waitlist heirs inherit leases with at least 25% Hawaiian blood quantum.
- DHHL has allocated $600 million from the Legislature to jumpstart 28 projects that could yield more than 6,300 lots with turnkey homes and vacant but ready-to-build lots.
- Some beneficiaries, such as Jade and Michael Riley, have moved into Puʻuhona while many sites, including East Kapolei/Kauluokahi development, remain mostly dirt with infrastructure delays.
- Officials warn completing all projects would require more than $800 million in additional funds amid rising construction costs driven by inflation and tariffs, with over 700 still waiting or rescinded.
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