Whole Home Health demonstration program that supports income-qualified households with electrification, weatherization and efficiency, and health and safety retrofits.
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.
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.
A new partnership with Thistle Community Housing was formed in 2024. A project was identified to bring efficient heating and cooling to all 48 income-qualified apartments at Thistle's Kimbark Street 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.