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Hawaii Foreclosures Climb and UH Gets Homeland Security Dough

by Jacob Shafer

July 08, 2010

12.3 percent

Portion of Hawaii home sales in the first quarter of 2010 that were foreclosure sales, a 94 percent increase compared to the first quarter of 2009 but still the sixth lowest in the nation



63.5 percent

Portion of Nevada home sales in the first quarter of 2010 that were foreclosure sales, the highest in the nation



$4.8 million

Federal grant from the Department of Homeland Security awarded last week to the University of Hawaii’s National Disaster Preparedness Training Center



$42.7 billion

Current budget of the Department of Homeland Security

Sources: RealtyTrac, Senate.gov, United States Office of Management and Budget, Pacific Business News