Boulder Housing Coalition

Boulder Housing Coalition owns & manages 2 permanently affordable rental cooperatives in Boulder, Colorado. The majority of the 25 low income residents living in these properties earn below 30% of the area's median income. The houses were purchased with the help of affordable housing grants from the City of Boulder and the County of Boulder. All of the buildings are owned in partnership with Boulder Housing Partners. By state statute, this provides a property tax exemption. In addition, Boulder Housing Coalition has an education program that offers cooperative living skills, mediation skills, and social justice education. These programs reached 200 people in 2024.On Dec. 6, 2024, BHC received a Denver city grant toward purchase of an additional cooperative mansion in Denver for $1,101,000, plus donated furnishings of $180,000.

Catalyst Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) Project: The decarbonization of the US electricity system is essential to protecting the natural environment, responsibly managing natural resources, and furthering the long-term health and safety of all communities. The PUDL project accelerates the transition away from fossil-fueled electricity systems by publicly providing high quality, actionable data. Since its 2019 release, the PUDL Python package has been downloaded nearly 10,000 times. PUDL has been used by academics, advocates, and energy data practitioners to help inform policy making around how to finance the early retirement of uneconomic coal plants and how to model the transition to a completely decarbonized electric grid. Boulder Housing Coalition served as Catalyst's fiscal sponsor for a 2024 grant of $150,931, of which $74,856 was applied to project costs.