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“After 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.”
– Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole
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The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is committed to employing a multifaceted approach in the development of housing options to meet the varied needs of our beneficiaries. Turnkey homes; subsistence agricultural lots; kūpuna housing; multi-family homesteads and owner-builder programs are a part of that approach.
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The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands carries out Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole’s vision of rehabilitating native Hawaiians by returning them to the land. Established by U.S. Congress in 1921 with the passage of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, the Hawaiian homesteading program run by DHHL includes management of more than 200,000 acres of land statewide with the specific purpose of developing and delivering homesteading.
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