Media Releases

The Sovereign Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations, formerly known as the Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, has recently asserted several false claims about the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands’ lease cancellation process. The Department wishes to clarify several of the assumptions.

Hawaiian Homes Commission Chair William J. Aila, Jr. has issued the following statement regarding vehicle access on Pua Avenue in Nānākuli.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands has issued its final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Department’s Honomū Subsistence Agriculture Homestead Community in South Hilo on Hawaiʻi Island.

Beneficiary families gathered at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands headquarters on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, for a chance at being selected as one of the 23 to receive a vacant lot within the Department’s Ka’uluokaha’i Subdivision – Increment B, located east of Kapolei Parkway near the Salvation Army Kroc Center.

The firebreak installation, conducted by Kauai Nursery & Landscaping, resulted in the removal of over 30 abandoned vehicles and roughly 80 tons of trash that included refrigerators, washing machines, other various appliances, scrap metal, tires, and household items.