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Whole Home Health demonstration program that supports income-qualified households with electrification, weatherization and efficiency, and health and safety retrofits.

Lead paragraph

Leveraging partnerships with affordable housing organizations can help ensure building electrification is implemented with a people-centered focus and that electrification technologies are deployed for frontline community members and populations beyond early adopters.

Description

City staff are in the second full year of a demonstration program (Whole Home Health) designed to bring cooling, weatherization, and electrification to income-qualified households in Longmont. The objectives of the demonstration are to gather data about housing types, project measures and costs, operational costs and utility bill impacts, and other resources that can be leveraged to offset the high costs of meaningful upgrades in single family, mobile, and small multifamily homes. The results of the demonstration will inform program scaling and regional implementation.

Whole Home Health has proactively worked with organizations that provide affordable housing to income-qualified populations to improve the efficiency and health and safety of the housing without increasing utility costs.

Tasks

What are we doing?

  • Todo12/31/2025

    Multifamily Energy Efficiency Project 2025

    A new partnership with Thistle Community Housing was formed in 2024. A project was scoped to bring efficient heating and cooling to all 48 income-qualified units at their Kimbark Property. This project will no longer utilize Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds from the Department of Energy due to an indefinite pause in grant approvals by the DOE. The project is moving forward using local funding and has now entered the contracting phase. Completion is still anticipated in 2025.

What has been done?

  • Done12/31/2024

    Multifamily Energy Efficiency Project 2024

    The Whole Home Health program completed energy efficiency and safety retrofits at the Longmont Housing Authority, Briarwood Community. This included the installation of efficient heat pumps in each of the 10 units, alongside insulation and air sealing. Additionally, health and safety hazards in the attic area, improving the overall living environment for residents.

Summary and contacts

Timeline

Continuous

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Challenges considered

Contact persons

  • Adam Sanderson
    Energy Program Coordinator
    Longmont Power & Communications
Information updated 07/18/2025

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