HI SR9

Requests the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands implement programs to support very low income Native Hawaiian beneficiaries.

Notes the residential and farming homestead waitlist contains approximately 28,000 Native Hawaiian adults, with over 2,000 having died while waiting.

Proposes awarding vacant land leases for county-approved temporary structures with Department of Health-approved wastewater systems to address housing needs.

Suggests duplicating the Puuhonua O Waianae model on every island through general leases to homestead groups.

Requests the Department provide rental assistance, mortgage assistance, and down payment assistance to eligible Native Hawaiian beneficiaries.