The mission of Empire State Development (“ESD”) is to promote a vigorous and growing state economy, encourage business investment and job creation, and support diverse, prosperous local economies across New York State through the efficient use of loans, grants, tax credits, real estate development, marketing, and other forms of assistance. To support broadband access for communities who live in affordable housing, Empire State Development’s ConnectALL Office (“CAO”) has issued this Request for Applications (“RFA”) for the Affordable Housing Connectivity Program (“AHCP”).?
Through this RFA, CAO intends to support broadband access for residents of affordable housing in New York State, leveraging funding from the U.S. Department of Treasury Capital Projects Fund (“CPF”). The objective of this RFA is to improve broadband access in regulated affordable housing rental units, by providing funding to Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”), broadband infrastructure developers, and other entities with broadband deployment capacity to deploy new and/or upgraded fiber-based or comparable broadband infrastructure to and within affordable housing properties (“Properties”). AHCP-funded infrastructure may include fiber drops, new/upgraded in-building wiring, and additional network components and equipment required to deliver upgraded broadband service to residents of affordable housing Properties. By subsidizing deployment of broadband infrastructure to and within affordable housing Properties, the AHCP will connect thousands of low-income households to reliable, affordable, high-speed broadband service. The program will increase affordability of service options by changing broadband delivery economics for ISPs and Property Owners and by lowering the barrier for ISPs to access broadband infrastructure to and within these Properties for the purposes of providing service to end-users.?
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Applicants will be required to provide the specified ID number upon request by the funding agencies.
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Participation in the federal Affordable Connectivity Program (“ACP”): AHCP-funded projects will be required to allow end-users to utilize the ACP benefit. Applicants selected to be Grantees will be required to certify their continued participation in the ACP in regular reporting to CAO. Applicants who propose to provide open-access infrastructure for other ISPs to serve end-users must include a requirement for tenant ISPs to allow end-users to utilize the ACP benefit. For more information about the ACP, visit https://www.fcc.gov/acp.