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Park County Housing Coalition outlines home-repair program and coordinated entry as 2025 priorities
Summary
HRDC’s Park County Housing Coalition presented a 2025 work plan that focuses on home-repair grants and loans (funded through a Community Development Block Grant), strengthening the coordinated entry system for people experiencing homelessness, and building a long-term community housing fund.
Catherine Daly, Park County Housing Coalition program manager at HRDC, told the Livingston City Commission Tuesday that the coalition’s 2025 work plan will prioritize three areas: a Park County home-repair program using Community Development Block Grant funding; strengthening the county’s coordinated entry system for people experiencing homelessness; and planning for a community housing fund to sustain work beyond 2026.
"Our mission is simply to increase opportunities for Park County residents to access housing where they can afford to live and thrive," Daly told commissioners. Daly described the coalition as a community-led program staffed by HRDC and supported by a volunteer nine-person steering committee that includes a designated city representative.
Daly said the Park County Home Repair Program — funded by a Community Development Block Grant Housing Stabilization Program (CDBG HSP) award secured by HRDC — will provide 0% interest, fully forgivable loans to low- and moderate-income owner-occupants for health-and-safety repairs, accessibility improvements, and energy-efficiency upgrades. Eligibility will be limited to site-built, owner-occupied single-family homes with household incomes at or below about 80% of area median income; Daly said that threshold is currently about $61,000 for a two-person household but will be updated when HUD posts final area median income figures.
Daly said the coalition is assembling program documents and expects to deliver funds as forgivable loans consistent with state and federal CDBG rules. She told the commission there are roughly 1,600 homeowners in Park County who would meet the program’s financial eligibility as currently drafted and noted that more than half of Park County housing stock was built before 1980.
On homelessness response, Daly said Park County identified 43 people as experiencing homelessness in a recent point-in-time count, up from 11 in 2022; she and coalition partners will strengthen partner roles, update data- and information-sharing agreements, and invite additional providers — including Livingston Healthcare — to participate in case conferencing and coordinated entry.
The coalition is also reviving earlier work on a community housing fund. Daly said steering-committee discussions have already examined possible revenue mechanisms — including philanthropic gifts, membership or voluntary fees, and voter-approved measures — and that a narrowed menu of funding options will be presented for broader public discussion before the coalition finalizes fund design.
Why this matters: Daly framed the coalition’s work as preserving the existing housing stock and improving rapid rehousing and referrals for people in crisis. The new home-repair program targets an often-overlooked segment of the market — low- and moderate-income homeowners whose houses are aging and need health-and-safety work.
What’s next: HRDC will complete program documents for the CDBG housing stabilization funds, refine eligibility and underwriting details when HUD updates AMI figures, and continue steering-committee work on a sustainable community housing fund. Daly invited commissioners and the public to participate or to refer eligible households to HRDC.
