California Advanced Services Fund: Broadband Public Housing Account – January 2025 Cycle
This funding provides financial support to build free broadband networks for low-income communities, including public housing and mobile home parks, ensuring residents have access to high-quality internet service.
The CASF Broadband Public Housing Account provides grants and loans to build broadband networks offering free broadband service for residents of low-income communities including, but not limited to, publicly supported housing developments, farmworker housing, and other housing developments or mobile home parks with low-income residents that do not have access to any broadband service provider that offers free broadband service that meets or exceeds state standards for the residents of the low-income community. The allocated funding for the Broadband Public Housing Account is $30.1 million for fiscal year 2024-2025. The Broadband Public Housing Account will award grants to finance up to 100 percent of the costs to install last mile infrastructure, inside wiring and broadband network equipment but will not finance operations and maintenance costs through this program.
Award Range
Not specified - Not specified
Total Program Funding
$30,141,000
Number of Awards
Not specified
Matching Requirement
No
Eligible Applicants
Additional Requirements
Publicly supported housing development Farmworker housing Other housing developments Mobilehome parks One or more Census block group(s), each with a median household income at or below 80 percent of the statewide median income or with median household incomes at or below the county-specific threshold designated as “low-income” by the Department of Housing and Community Development’s list of state income limits adopted pursuant to Section 50093 of the Health and Safety Code. 26,27. For projects that are eligible based on Census Block Groups, a city or county government may apply on behalf of the low-income community “Publicly supported housing development” is a publicly supported multi-unit housing development that is wholly owned by either of the following: (i) A public housing agency that has been chartered by the state, or by any city or county in the state. (ii) An incorporated nonprofit organization as described in Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c)(3))12 that is exempt from taxation under Section 501 (a) of that code (16 U.S.C. Sec. 501(a)) and that has received public funding to subsidize the construction or maintenance of housing occupied by residents whose annual income qualifies as “low” or “very low” income according to federal poverty guidelines.
Geographic Eligibility
All
Application Opens
Not specified
Application Closes
January 1, 2025
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