Leadership
Rick Boucher
Honorary Chairman
Bruce P. Mehlman
Co-Chairman
Jamal Simmons
Co-Chairman
Tracey Sawicki
Executive Director
The Internet Innovation Alliance is a broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations that aim to ensure every American, regardless of race, income or geography, has access to the critical tool that is broadband Internet. The IIA seeks to promote public policies that support equal opportunity for universal broadband availability and adoption so that everyone, everywhere can seize the benefits of the Internet - from education to health care, employment to community building, civic engagement and beyond.
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In 2000, HUD estimated its improper rental assistance payments at $3.22 billion per-year, due to failure to properly report, verify or process income and benefit information.
This has allowed HUD to reduce improper rental housing assistance payments by nearly $2 billion, or 60% from the $3.2 billion level in 2000, to less than $1.3 billion in 2005. This level of reduction in improper payments enables HUD to use those savings to provide assistance to more than 250,000 additional households.
Internet-based systems are also critical to increasing accuracy at The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which pays out $27 billion a year in rental assistance to provide 4.6 million low-income households with affordable housing.