Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 3, 1 March 1992 — DHHL computes people on list [ARTICLE]

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DHHL computes people on list

The long-standing misconception that there are 21,000 applicants on the waiting list for Hawaiian Home Lands was the addressed in a February news release by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. DHHL said "in fact there is no 'one' waiting list," rather there are 15 lists, three for eaeh island divided into residential, agricultural and pastoral categories. Applicants ean, and do, apply for different types of land and are on more than one list at a time. The last study by the applications branch at DHHL, by checking Social Security numbers, found that while there are some 21,000 applications on file, there are roughly 12,700 applicants.