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DHHL outlines aggressive lease pipeline and tests modular housing to cut costs for beneficiaries
Summary
DHHL told the Office of Hawaiian Affairs meeting that it plans to issue thousands of homestead leases over the next 3–5 years, pilot modular construction to reduce per‑square‑foot costs, and use project leases and a mix of financing tools to speed occupancy for beneficiaries on a wait list of about 29,000.
Kalani Franda, acting administrator of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands’ land development division, told trustees at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ Oahu Island community meeting in Nanakuli that DHHL plans to issue thousands of leases over the next three to five years to address a wait list now spread across the islands. “Over the past hundred years, we've had about 10,000 leases equivalent to about 100 per year,” Franda said, describing a new approach that aims to increase that rate and offer options tuned to beneficiaries’ ability to pay.
Franda described “project leases,” a mechanism he said allows a 50-percent lessee’s interest to be transferred…
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