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Hawaii's 'Blood Quantum' Rule Deepens The State's Housing Crisis
Hawaii's 'Blood Quantum' Rule Deepens The State's Housing Crisis
Authored by Rachel Chiu via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
Hawaiian residents are challenging ancestry-based housing restrictions in federal court. A pair of lawsuits filed in June and July takes aim at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, a state agency that reserves long-term homestead leases to individuals who meet the state’s “blood quantum” requirement.
To be eligible for a homestead lease—long-term, affordable leases for residential, agricultural, and pastoral purposes—an applicant must prove that he or she has 50 percent Native Hawaiian ancestry....
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