WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE ON THE WAITING LISTS FOR DEPT. OF HAWAIIAN HOMES LAND LEASES IF HAWAIIANS BECOME FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED?
THEY KEEP WAITING... THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.
"30,000 people are on the waiting list housing in tribal areas" - Chester Carl, National American Indian Housing Council Chairman and Executive
Meanwhile, reservation residents , face years on waiting lists. About 100,000 Indian families nationwide live in shabby, often overcrowded quarters, some without plumbing or electricity. There are many who have become discouraged after being on the list for years who have not renewed their applications.
"In southwestern Utah there is a desperate need for new homes to accommodate a very long waiting list of Native American families I have a waiting list with 1,000 people on it,” Victor Velasquez (White Mountain Apache Housing Authority) says. “It doesn’t take a math genius to figure out that if you just depend on NAHASDA money you're never going to get your people housed."
These are not isolated examples, they are the norm....federal wardship is not the cure for long waiting lists as some might like people to believe.
