We found 60% of residential homestead leases awarded on Oahu in the past 25 years went to Census tracts with median household incomes greater than $75,000.
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The department would often have to go thousands deep on its waitlist to find people willing and able to accept a lease and the mortgage that came with it.
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Meanwhile, we found more than 2k people who had died on the waitlist without ever receiving a homestead lease. That’s almost certainly an undercount because the department only records the death of a waitlister when they receive a death certificate, usually from a family member.
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And the initial motivation of the subdivision strategy -- to build more homes to move people off the waitlist most quickly -- hasn’t worked out either.
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It would take the department an additional 182 years to provide everyone on the waitlist with a residential lot, based on its rate of production in the past 25 years.pic.twitter.com/XtDkOtztxx
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And in recent years, following budget constraints, the department has struggled to produce homesteads. In three of the past five years, awards actually fell into the single digits.pic.twitter.com/bmT6s2D7Yx
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The department says the subdivision model was meant to appease the top choice of waitlisters: single-family homes. And it says it’s working more affordable options into its offerings. The main constraint: funding.
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Read more about how we analyzed the department’s data to uncover these findings here.https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-found-low-income-hawaiians-were-left-behind-by-the-homesteading-program …
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@ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network and is a great example of the amazing work we can do with the local newsrooms. Special thanks to Rob for his incredible work on this project and for being a great collaborator &@mjmishak for his edits2 replies 1 retweet 49 likesShow this thread -
Stay tuned folks, plenty more to come!
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Thank you for the insight!
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