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JAHawaiian Homes Gets OHA Money
June 6, 2008
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has announced that it will be working with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) to provide up to $90 million over 30 years to Hawaiian Home Lands programs to cover the interest payments on bonds to build housing projects for Native Hawaiians. Created in 1920 by the US Congress, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands set aside roughly 200,000 acres to be leased to anyone with 50 percent or more Hawaiian blood for $1 a year. Due to a lack of funding, however, the DHHL has delivered only 5,941 lots in the last 82 years.
