05-18-2017, 08:27 AM
why are Native Hawaiian homes not built on Native Hawaiian homestead properties
Short answer: because money.
Native Hawaiians who possess sufficient provable blood quanta may apply for a lease. If they don't die of old age while waiting for the lease to be awarded, "all they have to do is" build a fully code-compliant permitted house, which requirements now include a septic system. Of course, they don't own the land, so there's no passing it down to their descendants.
It's almost as if the whole system was designed to keep them from ever actually living on the land that was taken from them, then carefully set aside for their eventual use (if they can afford it).
Then we wonder why they're homeless.
A thatched hale was good enough for the Ancient Hawaiians, but today's building codes are far more important than actually providing shelter for people. (During some discussions about "recognition", County expressed "concern" that the Native Hawaiians would somehow be exempt from the building codes.)
Next: another tax increase to pay for more of that awesome "transitional housing" at $500 a square foot.
Short answer: because money.
Native Hawaiians who possess sufficient provable blood quanta may apply for a lease. If they don't die of old age while waiting for the lease to be awarded, "all they have to do is" build a fully code-compliant permitted house, which requirements now include a septic system. Of course, they don't own the land, so there's no passing it down to their descendants.
It's almost as if the whole system was designed to keep them from ever actually living on the land that was taken from them, then carefully set aside for their eventual use (if they can afford it).
Then we wonder why they're homeless.
A thatched hale was good enough for the Ancient Hawaiians, but today's building codes are far more important than actually providing shelter for people. (During some discussions about "recognition", County expressed "concern" that the Native Hawaiians would somehow be exempt from the building codes.)
Next: another tax increase to pay for more of that awesome "transitional housing" at $500 a square foot.