ConnectHome: Coming Together to Ensure Digital Opportunity for All Americans

ConnectHome is the next step in President Barack Obama’s continued efforts to expand high speed broadband to all Americans and builds on his ConnectED initiative that is on track to connect 99 percent of K-12 students to high-speed Internet in their classrooms and libraries over the next five years. ConnectHome will help ensure that these students still have access to high-speed Internet once they are home. Specifically, ConnectHome is:

Building regional partnerships: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is collaborating with EveryoneOn and US Ignite who worked with private- and public-sector leaders to build local partnerships and gather commitments that will increase access to the Internet for low-income Americans.
Twenty-eight communities strong: The President and HUD Secretary Julián Castro announced that HUD has selected twenty-seven cities and one tribal nation to participate in ConnectHome.
Helping deliver affordable connectivity: Eight nationwide Internet Service Providers have announced they are partnering with mayors, public housing authorities, non-profit groups, and for-profit entities to bridge the gap in digital access for students living in assisted housing units.
Making Internet access more valuable: Skills training is essential to effectively taking advantage of all the Internet offers.
Ensuring HUD assisted housing integrates broadband: The Department of Housing and Urban Development is also taking major steps to provide communities across the nation tools to improve digital opportunity for its residents.