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 PUBLIC LAW 106-569—DEC. 27, 2000 114 STAT. 2967 (5) 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; (6) among the Native American population of the United States, Native Hawaiians experience the highest percentage of housing problems in the United States, as the percentage— (A) of housing problems in the Native Hawaiian population is 49 percent, as compared to— (i) 44 percent for American Indian and Alaska Native households in Indian country; and (ii) 27 percent for all other households in the United States; and (B) overcrowding in the Native Hawaiian population is 36 percent as compared to 3 percent for all other households in the United States; (7) among the Native Hawaiian population, the needs of Native Hawaiians, as that term is defined in section 801 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (as added by this subtitle), eligible to reside on the Hawaiian Home Lands are the most severe, as— (A) the percentage of overcrowding in Native Hawaiian households on the Hawaiian Home Lands is 36 percent; and (B) 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; (8) applying the Department of Housing and Urban Development guidelines— (A) 70.8 percent of Native Hawaiians who either reside or who are eligible to reside on the Hawaiism Home Lands have incomes that fall below the median family income; and (B) 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; (9) 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; (10) 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; (11) 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

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