Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/25/4221
Timestamp: 2017-03-25 09:51:38
Document Index: 149975674

Matched Legal Cases: ['§\u202f801', '§\u202f203', '§\u202f513', '§\u202f203', '§\u202f513', '§\u202f513', '§\u202f808', '§\u202f513', '§\u202f808', '§\u202f203', '§\u202f512', '§\u202f202']

The term “Department of Hawaiian Home Lands” or “Department” means the agency or department of the government of the State of Hawaii that is responsible for the administration of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 (42 Stat. 108 et seq.).
The term “Director” means the Director of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
(A) In generalThe term “elderly family” or “near-elderly family” means a family whose head (or his or her spouse), or whose sole member, is—
(B) Certain families includedThe term “elderly family” or “near-elderly family” includes—
(4) Hawaiian Home LandsThe term “Hawaiian Home Lands” means lands that—
The term “housing area” means an area of Hawaiian Home Lands with respect to which the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is authorized to provide assistance for affordable housing under this chapter.
The term “housing entity” means the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
The term “housing plan” means a plan developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
(8) Median incomeThe term “median income” means, with respect to an area that is a Hawaiian housing area, the greater of—
(9) Native HawaiianThe term “Native Hawaiian” means any individual who is—
verification by kupuna (elders) or kamaʻaina (long-term community residents); or
(Pub. L. 104–330, title VIII, § 801, as added Pub. L. 106–568, title II, § 203, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2876, and Pub. L. 106–569, title V, § 513, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2969.)
Pub. L. 106–568, § 203, and Pub. L. 106–569, § 513, enacted substantially identical sections 801 of Pub. L. 104–330. This section is based on the text of section 801 of Pub. L. 104–330, as added by Pub. L. 106–569, § 513.
Pub. L. 104–330, title VIII, § 808, as added by Pub. L. 106–569, title V, § 513, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2979, provided that: “Except as otherwise expressly provided in this title [enacting this subchapter], this title shall take effect on the date of the enactment of the American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 [Pub. L. 106–569, approved Dec. 27, 2000].”
Pub. L. 104–330, title VIII, § 808, as added by Pub. L. 106–568, title II, § 203, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2885, provided that: “Except as otherwise expressly provided in this title [enacting this subchapter], this title shall take effect on the date of the enactment of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Amendments of 2000 [probably should be the Hawaiian Homelands Ownership Act of 2000, title II of Pub. L. 106–568, approved Dec. 27, 2000].”
Pub. L. 106–569, title V, § 512, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2966, provided that: “The Congress finds that—
employing its resources to remedy the unsafe and unsanitary housing conditions and the acute shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for families of lower income; and
developing effective partnerships with governmental and private entities to accomplish the objectives referred to in subparagraph (A);
the United States has a special responsibility for the welfare of the Native peoples of the United States, including Native Hawaiians;
pursuant to the provisions of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 (42 Stat. 108 et seq.) [former 48 U.S.C. 691 et seq.], the United States set aside 200,000 acres of land in the Federal territory that later became the State of Hawaii in order to establish a homeland for the native people of Hawaii—Native Hawaiians;
despite the intent of Congress in 1920 to address the housing needs of Native Hawaiians through the enactment of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 (42 Stat. 108 et seq.), Native Hawaiians eligible to reside on the Hawaiian home lands have been foreclosed from participating in Federal housing assistance programs available to all other eligible families in the United States;
although Federal housing assistance programs have been administered on a racially neutral basis in the State of Hawaii, Native Hawaiians continue to have the greatest unmet need for housing and the highest rates of overcrowding in the United States;
44 percent for American Indian and Alaska Native households in Indian country; and
27 percent for all other households in the United States; and
overcrowding in the Native Hawaiian population is 36 percent as compared to 3 percent for all other households in the United States;
the percentage of overcrowding in Native Hawaiian households on the Hawaiian Home Lands is 36 percent; and
approximately 13,000 Native Hawaiians, which constitute 95 percent of the Native Hawaiians who are eligible to reside on the Hawaiian Home Lands, are in need of housing;
70.8 percent of Native Hawaiians who either reside or who are eligible to reside on the Hawaiian Home Lands have incomes that fall below the median family income; and
50 percent of Native Hawaiians who either reside or who are eligible to reside on the Hawaiian Home Lands have incomes below 30 percent of the median family income;
one-third of those Native Hawaiians who are eligible to reside on the Hawaiian Home Lands pay more than 30 percent of their income for shelter, and one-half of those Native Hawaiians face overcrowding;
the extraordinarily severe housing needs of Native Hawaiians demonstrate that Native Hawaiians who either reside on, or are eligible to reside on, Hawaiian Home Lands have been denied equal access to Federal low-income housing assistance programs available to other qualified residents of the United States, and that a more effective means of addressing their housing needs must be authorized;
consistent with the recommendations of the National Commission on American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing, and in order to address the continuing prevalence of extraordinarily severe housing needs among Native Hawaiians who either reside or are eligible to reside on the Hawaiian Home Lands, Congress finds it necessary to extend the Federal low-income housing assistance available to American Indians and Alaska Natives under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.) to those Native Hawaiians;
under the treatymaking power of the United States, Congress had the constitutional authority to confirm a treaty between the United States and the government that represented the Hawaiian people, and from 1826 until 1893, the United States recognized the independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii, extended full diplomatic recognition to the Hawaiian Government, and entered into treaties and conventions with the Hawaiian monarchs to govern commerce and navigation in 1826, 1842, 1849, 1875, and 1887;
an ongoing right of self-determination and self-governance that has never been extinguished;
the Native American Programs Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 2291 [2991] et seq.);
the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (42 U.S.C. 1996 et seq.);
the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.) [see 54 U.S.C. 300101 et seq.];
the Native American Languages Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 3434 [Pub. L. 102–524, see Short Title of 1992 Amendment note set out under section 2991 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare]);
the American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Culture and Arts [Art] Development Act (20 U.S.C. 4401 et seq.);
the Job Training Partnership Act ([former] 29 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.); and
the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.); and
the enactment of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 (42 Stat. 108 et seq.), which set aside approximately 200,000 acres of public lands that became known as Hawaiian Home Lands in the Territory of Hawaii that had been ceded to the United States for homesteading by Native Hawaiians in order to rehabilitate a landless and dying people;
by ceding to the State of Hawaii title to the public lands formerly held by the United States, and mandating that those lands be held in public trust, for the betterment of the conditions of Native Hawaiians, as that term is defined in section 201 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 (42 Stat. 108 et seq.); and
by transferring the United States responsibility for the administration of Hawaiian Home Lands to the State of Hawaii, but retaining the authority to enforce the trust, including the exclusive right of the United States to consent to any actions affecting the lands which comprise the corpus of the trust and any amendments to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 (42 Stat. 108 et seq.), enacted by the legislature of the State of Hawaii affecting the rights of beneficiaries under the Act;
the authorization of mortgage loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration for the purchase, construction, or refinancing of homes on Hawaiian Home Lands under the National Housing Act (Public Law 479; 73d Congress; 12 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.);
authorizing Native Hawaiian representation on the National Commission on American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing under Public Law 101–235 [see Tables for classification];
the inclusion of Native Hawaiians in the definition under section 3764 [now 3765] of title 38, United States Code, applicable to subchapter V of chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code (relating to a housing loan program for Native American veterans); and
the enactment of the Hawaiian Home Lands Recovery Act (109 Stat. 357; 48 U.S.C. 491, note prec.) [Pub. L. 104–42, title II] which establishes a process for the conveyance of Federal lands to the Department of Hawaiian Homes Lands that are equivalent in value to lands acquired by the United States from the Hawaiian Home Lands inventory.”
Substantially identical provisions were contained in Pub. L. 106–568, title II, § 202, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2872.