A Native Hawaiian–Led Initiative Strengthening ʻEwa and Supporting Hawaiian Homes

For more than a century, Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole’s vision has guided our lāhui — that Native Hawaiians would return to ʻāina, rebuild thriving communities, and shape our own future.

The Prince Kūhiō Gateway carries that vision forward. Led by Native Hawaiian beneficiary Patti Ann Tancayo — a waitlister with over 30 years of experience in affordable housing development and one of the only Native Hawaiian wahine developers in Hawaiʻi today — this project represents something truly uncommon: Native Hawaiian leadership building solutions for the lāhui.

A Hawaiian developer building for Hawaiian families, and giving the land back.

Through this effort, a 22.7-acre commercial project in ʻEwa is being privately funded, cleaned, built, and operated with a commitment to:

• Generate long-term revenue for DHHL

• Support homestead infrastructure statewide

• Build 60–80 affordable kūpuna homes

• Create jobs and opportunity close to home

• Empower Hawaiian entrepreneurs and youth

• Ultimately gift the entire 22.7 acres to DHHL at no cost

This is Native Hawaiian self-determination in practice — economic self-sufficiency, community investment, and land returned to the Hawaiian Homes Trust.