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Beneficiaries press DHHL to speed projects, cite Aina Mauna legacy and ask to 'end the wait list'
Summary
Multiple beneficiaries urged the Hawaiian Homes Commission to accelerate projects including the Aina Mauna legacy initiative and to partner with state agencies to reduce a decades-long wait list, calling the situation a 'humanitarian crisis' and asking for DHHL support and letters of endorsement.
A broad group of beneficiaries and wait-list representatives told the Hawaiian Homes Commission on Feb. 18 that the department must do more to reduce a long-standing wait list and back projects that would place families on homestead lands.
"Let's end the wait list," said a speaker identifying as a wait-lister during a series of public comments supporting the Aina Mauna legacy project and…
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