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DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 07-09-2019
DHHL wants to develop a property for solar power, as it’s desigated industrial, but those on the homelands waiting list aren’t convinced they’ll benefit.
Aila says the solar project is a money-maker that can eventually buy more homes for more Hawaiians.#8233;But some critics aren't convinced.#8233;“A lot of Native Hawaiians are on the wait list and still waiting to have our land, a little piece of land so that we can put a house, so I can leave for my kids, and they can leave for their kids and their kids,” said Vanessa Garcia Phillips.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/07/09/proposal-raise-money-hawaiian-home-lands-turns-ugly-kapolei/
If only there was a group of people who advocated for the Native Hawaiian people, and protested against injustice and unequal distribution of Hawaiian homeland income and properties. What could be more important than their own piece of land, a home, a legacy for their keiki? Land, home, a gathering place for children and grandchildren that they can use every hour of the day, all year long, every moment for a lifetime.
Somebody should do something.
RE: DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - kalakoa - 07-09-2019
What could be more important than their own piece of land, a home, a legacy for their keiki?
Protesting construction of a telescope.
RE: DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - glinda - 07-09-2019
This piece of land is a nonstarter. DHHL owns it, it can’t be used for residential, has no infrastructure, and someone will pay them handsomely to use it to build a solar farm on it. Why anyone would bitch about that.. or use it to start a thread of discontent here.. is beyond me.
I applaud DHHL’s efforts to move forward with this proposal and wish the developer every success. As to getting more Hawaiians on their land, I hope this helps facilitate that goal.
RE: DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 07-09-2019
a thread of discontent
The thread of discontent is with the Native Hawaiian people. Some of them voiced their ongoing concerns at the hearing, stating DHHL income is always promised, but rarely delivered to the people they serve. The waiting list for Hawaiian Homelands doesn’t shrink because DHHL provides property and homes for the Hawaiian people, but because applicants on the waiting list die before they’re granted a lease. Maybe in this case, the big corporate money generator DHHL is in the right and the little guy who just wants a home is wrong?
RE: DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - glinda - 07-09-2019
No HOTPE the thread is yours. You started it, and instead of being kind, or saying something positive you turned it into a negative. As far as I can tell you personally help perpetuate the humbug.
RE: DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - kalakoa - 07-09-2019
There's more than enough DHHL land for all the Hawaiians to have a homestead -- if that were the real purpose of DHHL.
The housing "crisis" is completely manufactured.
RE: DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 07-09-2019
you personally help perpetuate the humbug.
Don’t aim for the messenger. You’ll miss the problem.
RE: DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - rainyjim - 07-09-2019
HOTPE, how dare you write about something Native Hawaiian related without getting approval from glinda first!
RE: DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - terracore - 07-09-2019
So they can't live there because it has no access to sewer or water?
By that standard most of us wouldn't be able to live in Puna.
RE: DHHL Wants To Generate $, not Homesteads - Rob Tucker - 07-09-2019
You all have likely noticed the DHHL subdivisions in Puna with few if any people living there. The old Red Road has one and there's Makuu Homesteads. Nice roads, water and power. Empty.
Here's what I have observed.... DHHL takes a decade or two to subdivide, survey, plan, lay water lines, install power, roads,civil engineering. Looks high end by Puna standards.
The thing is that DHHL contracts "friends and associates" at about 10x the going rate for the work. Kickbacks flow into DHHL staff. The development costs are divided by the number of lots. Then the might offer them to a Hawaiian family who is expected to get a loan for those development costs. No bank will loan at those numbers and/or few Hawaiian have sufficient high credit scores. DHHL drives home happy in their fat pickups or BMWs. Hawaiians have no home to go to.
Rinse and repeat.