Property owners must complete a survey to be considered eligible for “no-cost broadband upgrades” as part of New York’s new Affordable Housing Connectivity Program, which the governor’s office said is run in a partnership led by Empire State Development’s ConnectALL office.

Governor Kathy Hochul announced the program earlier this month on the governor’s website and said the program is federally funded through the U.S. Treasury Department’s Capital Projects Fund under the American Rescue Plan Act.

The governor’s announcement said the program is “the largest targeted investment in affordable housing connectivity in the nation.”

“We are leveraging a $100 million federal investment to give New Yorkers one of the most important household amenities we can offer –access to high-speed internet,” Hochul said, according to the governor’s announcement. “With work, school, and essential government services going digital, affordable homes need affordable, reliable broadband, and this funding will help bolster our efforts to build housing equipped with the basic tools that New Yorkers need to succeed.”

As part of the program, New York’s ConnectALL office, which leads a $1.3 billion initiative to transform the state’s digital infrastructure, will pair eligible properties with proposals from internet service providers (ISPs) to complete installations, the governor’s announcement said.

ISPs are “invited to apply for $100 million in federal funding for retrofits to provide internet infrastructure in affordable housing rental units to support high-speed internet,” the announcement stated.

Applications can be requested for New York’s Affordable Housing Connectivity Program here, at ConnectALL’s website, where property owners can also complete the required survey to participate in the program.