Chad Blair: A Casino In Kapolei? Don t Hold Your Breath - Honolulu Civil Beat
Chad Blair: A Casino In Kapolei? Don t Hold Your Breath
A DHHL proposal to build a casino in Kapolei has folks again talking up the idea of legalized gaming in the islands.
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Poker. Craps. Slots. You can’t play them legally in Hawaii.
But, if a proposal before the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands garners support, all could be allowed in Kapolei.
The Hawaiian Homes Commission has scheduled public hearings Monday and Tuesday via videoconferencing to decide whether a casino should be built on DHHL lands designated for commercial use.
The Government Promised to Return Ancestral Hawaiian Land, Then Never Finished the Job ProPublica 12/19/2020
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Twenty-five years ago, the state of Hawaii and the U.S. government promised Native Hawaiians to correct a historic wrong.
Public agencies had occupied thousands of acres intended to return Native people to their ancestral lands, paying little or no compensation for decades as the sites were used for military bases, game preserves, schools and other purposes. In 1995, state and federal legislation pledged to provide reparations.
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(Kapolei, Oʻahu) – The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) has extended the postponement of mortgage loan payments for all DHHL direct loans and loans assigned to the Department for an additional three-month period, through March 31, 2021.
In September, the Hawaiian Homes Commission (HHC) extended the initial continuance of mortgage loan postponement and delegated authority to HHC Chair William J. Ailā, Jr. to extend postponement beyond the initial three months.
The initial mortgage loan deferral was offered to borrowers beginning with the April 2020 payment as the Department anticipated the financial impacts on lessees due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
How Lending Practices Restrict Hawaiian Homesteaders’ Borrowing Power - Honolulu Civil Beat
How Lending Practices Restrict Hawaiian Homesteaders’ Borrowing Power
Native Hawaiians cannot take out second mortgages or home equity lines of credit on their homesteads but not everyone understood that was part of the deal. Reading time: 13 minutes.
For the few Native Hawaiians who can secure a residential lot on Hawaiian Home Lands, the ground holds the potential to fulfill a century-old promise.
The advantages of homeownership, a maintainable property to pass down to children, the restoration of economic self-sufficiency among Native Hawaiians these were all commitments made by the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, passed by Congress in 1920.