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HB2511, HD1\/SB3359, SD2 represent a historic step towards the State of Hawai\u02bbi fulfilling the promise it made when it became a state that it would house native Hawaiians in accordance with the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920.\u00a0 If enacted, this would be the single largest state or federal investment in the program in any one year in the 100-year history of HHCA. HB2511, HD1\/SB3359, SD2 hold the potential for generational change for native Hawaiians who have languished on the waitlist for far too long by offering the chance for homeownership in their kul\u0101iwi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">UPDATE: HB2511 and SB3359 have cleared the First Crossover Deadline on March 10. Then, the bills will need to be scheduled for committee hearings prior to March 23 to pass the Second Lateral Deadline. CNHA will notify the community to provide public testimony for those committee hearings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">HB2511 HD2 appropriates $600 million to DHHL to:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Develop lots or units;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Purchase available land or units;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Provide funding for an applicant on the waiting list or the applicant's qualified relative [\u2026] to purchase a residence in the State; with a preference for those who do not currently own a residence; and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Other services as necessary to address the waiting list.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">SB3359 SD2 appropriates $600 million to DHHL for the following projects:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">$487.6 million to develop 2,190 new homestead lots on O\u02bbahu, Maui, Moloka\u02bbi, Hawai\u02bbi Island and Kaua\u02bbi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">$112.4 million for down payment and mortgage payment assistance for HHCA beneficiaries.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"transform: rotate(0deg);\">\r\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Media Coverage:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_19\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/2022\/03\/04\/hawaii-news\/600m-investment-plan-for-hawaiian-homesteads-advances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$600 million investment plan for Hawaiian homesteads advances<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">March 4, 2022 | Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_19\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2022\/03\/04\/huge-dhhl-cash-infusion-could-fast-track-development-nearly-3000-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huge DHHL cash infusion could fast track development of nearly 3,000 homes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">March 4, 2022 | Hawai\u02bbi News Now<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_19\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitv.com\/news\/bills-designate-600-million-for-dhhl\/video_4fb46cfd-3a08-5b18-9fd8-968c464b0c19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bills designate $600 million for DHHL<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">March 3, 2022 | KITV<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_19\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiitribune-herald.com\/2022\/03\/03\/hawaii-news\/600m-for-dhhl-to-be-heard-by-money-committees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$600M for DHHL to be heard by money committees<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">March 3, 2022 | Hawaii Tribune Herald<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_19\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiipublicradio.org\/local-news\/2022-03-02\/lawmakers-to-hear-public-testimony-on-proposed-600m-for-hawaiian-home-lands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawmakers hear public testimony on proposed $600M for Hawaiian Home Lands<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">March 2, 2022 | Hawaii Public Radio<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_19\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/2022\/03\/plan-to-commit-600-million-to-hawaiian-home-lands-development-advances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan To Commit $600 Million To Hawaiian Home Lands Development Advances<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">March 1, 2022 | Honolulu Civil Beat<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_19\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khon2.com\/wake-up-2day\/bill-before-lawmakers-to-ease-dhhl-waitlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Before Lawmakers to Ease DHHL Waitlist<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">March 1, 2022 | KHON2<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"transform: rotate(0deg);\">\r\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-size: 25px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 25px;\">Submit Testimony on HB2511<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Sample Testimony:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Aloha,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">My name is _______, I am a Native Hawaiian resident of Hawai\u2018i. I STRONGLY SUPPORT HB2511\/SB3359 which would appropriate $600 million in much-needed and long-overdue funding to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to enable native Hawaiians to acquire residences. HB2511\/SB3359 represents a historic step towards the State of Hawai\u02bbi fulfilling the promise it made when it became a state that it would house native Hawaiians in accordance with the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920.\u00a0 If enacted, this would be the single largest state or federal investment in the program in any one year in the 100-year history of HHCA.\u00a0 HB2511\/SB3359 holds the potential for generational change for native Hawaiians who have languished on the waitlist for far too long by offering the chance for homeownership in their kul\u0101iwi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">In closing, please PASS HB2511\/SB3359 to help advance Prince K\u016bhi\u014d Kalaniana\u02bbole\u2019s vision of rehabilitating native Hawaiians through the HHCA program. Let\u2019s Fulfill the Promise!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Mahalo for this opportunity to testify on this measure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"transform: rotate(0deg);\">\r\n<div><button style=\"background-color: color_18; border: color_18; border-radius: 0px; transform: rotate(0deg);\"><spanstyle=\" background-color:color_15; font:font_8;\">SUBMIT TESTIMONY<\/button><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"transform: rotate(0deg);\">\r\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-size: 35px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Watch Former Gov. John Waihee III interview<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-size: 18px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">House Finance Chair Sylvia Luke about HB2511<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"transform: rotate(0deg);\">\r\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMPYOLeopyE\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"transform: rotate(0deg);\">\r\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-size: 35px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">About the Bills\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitol.hawaii.gov\/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=2511&year=2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HB2511<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Brief Summary:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Introduced as part of the House Majority Package by 46 members of the House<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Establishes a new Hawaiian Home Lands Special Fund<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Appropriates $600,000,000 to DHHL to enable native Hawaiians to acquire a residence in FY22\/23.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Department of Hawaiian Home Lands Quick Facts:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"font_8\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">On July 9, 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0Through its passage, the United States set aside approximately 200,000 acres of land to establish a permanent homeland for native Hawaiians, who were identified as a landless and \u201cdying\u201d people as the result of disease, intermarriage, and loss of lands.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0\u201cAfter extensive investigation and survey on the part of various organizations organized to rehabilitate the Hawaiian race, it was found that the only method in which to rehabilitate the race was to place them back upon the soil,\u201d Hawaii Congressional Delegate K\u016bhi\u014d Kalaniana\u02bbole wrote to U.S. Senators prior to the passage of the Act.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The 1959 Admission Act mandated that the State of Hawai\u02bbi, as a compact with the U.S., administer the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act and the approximately 200,000 acres of \u201cceded land\u201d set aside for Native Hawaiian homesteading, with oversight by the U.S. Congress.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Currently, DHHL administers nearly 10,000 homestead leases statewide<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The DHHL waitlist has steadily grown in size over the past decade rising from nearly 26,000 in 2010 to more than 28,700 today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiancouncil.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiancouncil.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiancouncil.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiancouncil.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiancouncil.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33177"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiancouncil.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42820,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiancouncil.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33177\/revisions\/42820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiancouncil.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}