ConnectHome: make HUD the Department of Opportunity
Every year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) creates opportunity for more than 30 million Americans, including more than 11.6 million children. That support ranges from assisting someone in critical need with emergency shelter
for a night to helping more than 7.8 million homeowners build intergenerational wealth. Simply put, HUD provides a passport to the middle class. HUD is many things but, most of all, it is the Department of Opportunity. Everything we did in the last
eight years was oriented to bring greater opportunity to the people we serve every day. That includes the thousands of public housing residents who now have access to high-speed Internet through ConnectHome. It includes the more than 1.2 million
borrowers in 2016--more than 720,000 of them firsttime homebuyers--who reached their own American Dream because of the access to credit the Federal Housing Administration provides.
