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Rebuilding Together Colorado

Critical home repairs, accessibility and emergency housing safety

Research time: ~6 min on GPT-6.1 Sol
  • Research — reviewed programs, finances and impact evidence.
  • Source audit — checked claims, assumptions and calculations.

Updated: 2026-10-07

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Summary

What do they do? Rebuilding Together Colorado provides free critical home repairs for low-income homeowners. It makes accessibility and safety modifications, alongside urgent furnace and water-heater work. This is the former Metro Denver affiliate, not the national Rebuilding Together organization.

Why we’re interested in this organization:

  • The original local filing separates 72 homeowners, overlapping repairs and volunteer hours.

  • Controlled home-modification research supports injury mechanisms while explicit clinical-null scenarios address contrary quality-of-life findings.

  • Resources require completed repairs but not clinical response; full burdens and volunteer-resource cost sensitivity remain.

Our main reservations:

  • No observed RTC utility, net spending displaced or repair durability calibrates the conditional reference.

  • Public repair programs and local CAPABLE providers may substitute; their outcomes are not RTC outcomes.

  • Service counties include El Paso outside Denver, and current marginal staffing or paid repair capacity is unverified.

What do you get for your dollar? $586K per DALY in Denver. DALY is our one-year comparison unit. QALY-based health gains and income-welfare equivalents retain their original assumptions; they are not measured clinical DALYs. Conditional FY2024 full annual local-recipient financial cost against broad repair function/safety and signed household resources; utility is judged, not measured RTC QALYs, whole-portfolio empirical EV or next-gift price..

The original FY2024 filing reports72 low-income homeowners. The10 veterans,67 seniors,60 disabled and5 households with children overlap; repair categories can occur in the same home. Request distinct homes, residents, completed repairs, local county, sustained hazards resolved, falls/function and actual avoided household spending. Earlier2016 emergency-family figures are not substituted as current output. The current application process includes a home assessment and selection; an application is not a completed repair. Native FY2024 demographic counts include67 seniors and60 disabled homeowners but overlap and do not establish the trial high-risk falls criteria. One homeowner index-person is used for health rather than multiplying by unobserved household members. Repeated homes, service dose and hazards actually resolved remain unknown.

1. What do they do?

Rebuilding Together Colorado provides free critical home repairs for low-income homeowners. It makes accessibility and safety modifications, alongside urgent furnace and water-heater work. This is the former Metro Denver affiliate, not the national Rebuilding Together organization. EIN84-1514642 is Rebuilding Together Metro Denver Inc DBA Rebuilding Together Colorado. Rebuilding Days use larger teams; Safe@Home offers smaller work, and some emergency jobs use licensed paid trades. Eligibility is owner-occupied low-income homes within named counties, with limits including delinquent taxes/mortgage; not all housing need is eligible.

2. Monitoring and information sharing

The original FY2024 filing reports72 low-income homeowners. The10 veterans,67 seniors,60 disabled and5 households with children overlap; repair categories can occur in the same home. Request distinct homes, residents, completed repairs, local county, sustained hazards resolved, falls/function and actual avoided household spending. Earlier2016 emergency-family figures are not substituted as current output. The current application process includes a home assessment and selection; an application is not a completed repair. Native FY2024 demographic counts include67 seniors and60 disabled homeowners but overlap and do not establish the trial high-risk falls criteria. One homeowner index-person is used for health rather than multiplying by unobserved household members. Repeated homes, service dose and hazards actually resolved remain unknown.

3. Qualitative assessment

HIPI randomized842 subsidized owner-occupied New Zealand households to modifications versus a three-year wait. Its adjusted medically attended fall-injury rate ratio was .74; crude rates .072 versus .061 per person-year had a confidence interval crossing null. Handrails, slip resistance and lighting differ from the RTC mix of furnace, water, structural and accessibility work. Stark randomized310 high-risk older adults to tailored OT hazard removal versus usual referral; the primary first-fall hazard, daily activity and quality of life were not significantly different, although secondary fall rates were lower. Neither study measured RTC QALYs. The broad reference retains .02 annual healthy-year utility among judged .5 health-relevant homeowners for3years and .5 substitute-provider additionality as transparent continuity hypotheses, not an RCT calibration. A narrow injury-only alternative replaces broad utility with .072 annual injury risk*.26 prevention*judged .05 healthy-year loss per injury; it is never added to overlapping broad function benefit. Controlled-null, shorter durability and adverse utility explicitly challenge the reference. Heating comfort and independence may differ from fall injury alone; no unsupported high-risk elderly coefficient is applied to all72homes.

4. What do you get for your dollar?

FY2024 full expenses $492,736; netted event/gaming/COGS fields blank. The$14,458 special event line is already functional expense and not added twice. FY2023 $321,790; FY2022 $483,389. The matched72 homeowners constrain the annual scope, not a next-gift price. Recognized program-cost sensitivity $370,902 omits allocated overhead; 2050 reported volunteer hours × judged$25/h adds$51,250 as a social-resource sensitivity, not measured payroll. The current conditional price remains $586K per DALY: health 0.827871019047375 plus signed resource equivalents 0.01251180323194287. The deeper check did not justify changing the broad utility point estimate; it instead exposes controlled-null and injury-only alternatives and fixes completion dependence for savings. This unchanged number does not mean all benefits were empirically confirmed. The financial-cost central excludes unpriced volunteer time; 2050hours*$25=$51,250 is added once to the numerator in the social-resource sensitivity, not also subtracted as a household loss. Cost mean is $432638.33. Program$370,902 is recognized expenses only, not allocated whole repair resources or marginal gift.

Model, assumptions and sensitivity

FY2024 full expenses $492,736; netted event/gaming/COGS fields blank. The$14,458 special event line is already functional expense and not added twice. FY2023 $321,790; FY2022 $483,389. The matched72 homeowners constrain the annual scope, not a next-gift price. Recognized program-cost sensitivity $370,902 omits allocated overhead; 2050 reported volunteer hours × judged$25/h adds$51,250 as a social-resource sensitivity, not measured payroll. The current conditional price remains $586K per DALY: health 0.827871019047375 plus signed resource equivalents 0.01251180323194287. The deeper check did not justify changing the broad utility point estimate; it instead exposes controlled-null and injury-only alternatives and fixes completion dependence for savings. This unchanged number does not mean all benefits were empirically confirmed. The financial-cost central excludes unpriced volunteer time; 2050hours*$25=$51,250 is added once to the numerator in the social-resource sensitivity, not also subtracted as a household loss. Cost mean is $432638.33. Program$370,902 is recognized expenses only, not allocated whole repair resources or marginal gift.

Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson plus El Paso service counties; g.85 judged share within fixed ten-county CBSA19740, not measured headquarters share.

Health = N*unique*b*eligible*completion*response*q*finite discounted T*g - full exposed process harm. Broad function and HIPI injury-only utility are replacements, not additive. Resource HH=N*unique*b*completion*success; same-household net resources logged jointly .5*HH*discountedYears*log(after/before), with full costs independent of success. Price10=10C/(health+signed resources).

C
492736 USD annual (observed). Observed original FY2024 full financial expenses492736; special event14458 already included, no second addback. [finance]
N
72 FY2024 observed homeowner envelope (observed). Observed FY2024 72 homeowners; unique completed local index-person cohort still unverified. [finance]
unique
1 model parameter (judgment). Judged dedup of native homeowner envelope; one homeowner clinical index, not household-size multiplier.
eligible
1 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
completion
1 model parameter (judgment). Completed repair gate shared by health and avoided spending; zero completion retains full burdens.
b
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Judged .5 recipient versus public/private alternative repair contribution, not a donor multiplier.
response
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Judged .5 share of additional repair homeowners with health-relevant hazards/function benefit, NOT a measured clinical response rate. [hipi] [harp]
q
0.02 model parameter (judgment). Retained judged .02 annual healthy-year utility for broad hazards/function. Neither HIPI injury risk nor HARP null QoL calibrates this number; injury-only replacement and null cases explicit. [hipi] [harp]
T
3 model parameter (judgment). Judged3year repair/function persistence. HIPI followed households about3years but does not establish RTC durability. [hipi] [harp]
g
0.85 model parameter (judgment). Judged .85 fixed ten-county Denver beneficiary share; El Paso outside boundary.
delay
0.1 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
r
0.03 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
harm
0.001 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
success
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Judged .5 resource-saving fraction of additional completed repairs; independent of clinical response.
workGain
0 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
medicalGain
500 model parameter (judgment). Judged500 actual net otherwise-paid energy/access/repair spending, after offsets; not medical retail or appreciated property capital.
overlap
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
cost
50 model parameter (judgment). Judged50 NET additional access/time cost versus alternate repair, on all exposed homeowners even failure.
baseline
30000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
payerLoss
0 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
externalCost
0 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
payerPeople
10000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.
payerBaseline
50000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional finite judgment; not a measured RTC clinical coefficient, residence, net earnings or causal savings.

central: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

clinical null: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: -0.06; all-population health QALYs: -0.07. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

financial only: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

zero benefit full burdens: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: -0.06; all-population health QALYs: -0.07. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.05. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no exposure: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no gift no exposure: Cost: $0; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

adverse: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: -1.19; all-population health QALYs: -1.40. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.11. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

unknown: Cost: unknown; Denver health QALYs: unknown; all-population health QALYs: unknown. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no resources: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.05. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

clinical response null: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: -0.06; all-population health QALYs: -0.07. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

short health: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.02; all-population health QALYs: 0.02. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

one year health: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.24; all-population health QALYs: 0.29. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

low additionality: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.12; all-population health QALYs: 0.14. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.04. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

all additionality: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 1.72; all-population health QALYs: 2.02. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.08. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

half geography: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.49; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no local share: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no positive overlap: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.05. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

full positive overlap: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.08. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

negative overlap zero: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.18. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

negative overlap one: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.05. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

mixed resources: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.09. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no access cost: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.06. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

high access cost: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.14. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

payer transfer loss: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.14. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

external care cost: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.05. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

double cost: Cost: $985K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

program recognized cost: Cost: $371K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

half cohort: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.41; all-population health QALYs: 0.49. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

undated growth envelope: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 1.66; all-population health QALYs: 1.95. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.03. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

household deduplication: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.58; all-population health QALYs: 0.68. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no net work gain: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

narrow HIPI injury only: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: -0.02; all-population health QALYs: -0.02. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

narrow HIPI crude injury difference: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: -0.04; all-population health QALYs: -0.04. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

narrow HIPI null: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: -0.06; all-population health QALYs: -0.07. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no resource success: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.05. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

negative all resources overlap zero: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.31. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

negative all resources overlap one: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.31. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

three year mean cost: Cost: $433K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

zero utility harm free financial only: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

one year implementation delay: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.81; all-population health QALYs: 0.95. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

one year durability: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.24; all-population health QALYs: 0.29. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

larger health loss per injury: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.11; all-population health QALYs: 0.12. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

higher net savings: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.14. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no eligible subgroup: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: -0.06; all-population health QALYs: -0.07. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

no completed dose: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: -0.06; all-population health QALYs: -0.07. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.05. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

low repair health relevance: Cost: $493K; Denver health QALYs: 0.03; all-population health QALYs: 0.03. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

volunteer resource shadow: Cost: $544K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

full social resource hypothesis: Cost: $600K; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.97. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.01. Conditional broad home-repair safety/function hypothesis, not measured RTC QALYs. Matched FY2024 full cost and72 homeowner envelope; relevant clinical and net household effects judged. Injury-only scenario replaces broad function health, not additive.

Counterfactual: Net household resources are not retail repair value or property appreciation. The $500 hypothesis is otherwise-paid energy/access/repair spending avoided after public/utility assistance and offsets. A judged half of additional completed repairs achieve such savings; this is independent of clinical relevance. Clinical response0 therefore does not eliminate real spending savings, but completion0 or resource success0 does. Full $50 NET additional homeowner time/access burden relative to alternate repair and .001 process-stress health loss apply even failed benefits. One joint log combines positive-only-overlap gains and full negative costs in each household. First-year spending savings are not capitalized or automatically repeated for3health years. Public/utility payer losses and outside provider costs are distinct sensitivity households, with full losses corresponding to the local recipient cohort. The official donor page currently contains FundraiseUp trigger XTUKPRYW; solicitation is verified, but final receipt, restricted routing and next-dollar repair capacity were not tested. Existing county/municipal programs and Brothers Redevelopment/CVNA CAPABLE are actual alternatives, not grounds for assuming all RTC benefits are replaced.

Attribution: HIPI randomized842 subsidized owner-occupied New Zealand households to modifications versus a three-year wait. Its adjusted medically attended fall-injury rate ratio was .74; crude rates .072 versus .061 per person-year had a confidence interval crossing null. Handrails, slip resistance and lighting differ from the RTC mix of furnace, water, structural and accessibility work. Stark randomized310 high-risk older adults to tailored OT hazard removal versus usual referral; the primary first-fall hazard, daily activity and quality of life were not significantly different, although secondary fall rates were lower. Neither study measured RTC QALYs. The broad reference retains .02 annual healthy-year utility among judged .5 health-relevant homeowners for3years and .5 substitute-provider additionality as transparent continuity hypotheses, not an RCT calibration. A narrow injury-only alternative replaces broad utility with .072 annual injury risk*.26 prevention*judged .05 healthy-year loss per injury; it is never added to overlapping broad function benefit. Controlled-null, shorter durability and adverse utility explicitly challenge the reference. Heating comfort and independence may differ from fall injury alone; no unsupported high-risk elderly coefficient is applied to all72homes.

Broad function utility and household savings are conditional judgments, not empirically calibrated RTC EV. Controlled null and narrower injury bridge remain material; funding/repair alternatives and volunteer resources can change the result.

Sensitivity

  • Broad function reference retains original conditional number; no measured utility inference.
  • Narrow HIPI injury-only replaces broad clinical benefit, with judged per-injury healthy-year loss.
  • Clinical response null can retain completed-repair resources; completion null cannot.
  • Volunteer resource cost once; fully allocated repair cost and current marginal funding unknown.

Unresolved inputs

  • Unique completed repairs and household residents by county
  • Local clinical utility/function and repair persistence
  • Net actual spending displaced versus subsidized alternatives
  • Next-gift capacity and fully allocated repair resources
  • Which repairs resolve health-relevant hazards and completed resource-saving dose
  • Replacement public/CAPABLE eligibility and actual substitution
  • Clinical risk/duration and counterparties for net utility/energy savings

Health and income breakdown

For the modeled $493K: 0.83 health QALYs + 0.01 income-equivalent healthy years in Denver: $586K per DALY. Income equivalents are welfare comparisons, not observed QALYs or DALYs.

Method and caveats.

5. Funding and previous grants

Net household resources are not retail repair value or property appreciation. The $500 hypothesis is otherwise-paid energy/access/repair spending avoided after public/utility assistance and offsets. A judged half of additional completed repairs achieve such savings; this is independent of clinical relevance. Clinical response0 therefore does not eliminate real spending savings, but completion0 or resource success0 does. Full $50 NET additional homeowner time/access burden relative to alternate repair and .001 process-stress health loss apply even failed benefits. One joint log combines positive-only-overlap gains and full negative costs in each household. First-year spending savings are not capitalized or automatically repeated for3health years. Public/utility payer losses and outside provider costs are distinct sensitivity households, with full losses corresponding to the local recipient cohort. The official donor page currently contains FundraiseUp trigger XTUKPRYW; solicitation is verified, but final receipt, restricted routing and next-dollar repair capacity were not tested. Existing county/municipal programs and Brothers Redevelopment/CVNA CAPABLE are actual alternatives, not grounds for assuming all RTC benefits are replaced.

Annual expenses

Organization-level spending, including programs, administration and fundraising. The research list averages three comparable, consecutive full fiscal years when available.

  • FY 2024: $493K; org:rebuilding-together, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source
  • FY 2023: $322K; org:rebuilding-together, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source
  • FY 2022: $483K; org:rebuilding-together, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source

6. Sources

  1. Original FY2024 local recipient IRS990. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  2. Original FY2023 local IRS990. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  3. Original FY2022 local IRS990. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  4. Current eligibility, repair programs and alternatives. Rebuilding Together Colorado. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  5. Current local recipient. Rebuilding Together Colorado. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  6. Current recipient donation intake. Rebuilding Together Colorado. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  7. Health and income comparison framework. Coefficient Giving. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  8. Original HIPI cluster-randomized home modification injury trial. Keall et al / The Lancet / PubMed. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-07.
  9. Original randomized home hazard removal trial: primary/null and secondary outcomes. Stark et al / JAMA Network Open. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-07.
  10. Original Colorado CAPABLE pilot evaluation: alternative providers and uncontrolled design. Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-07.
  11. Original randomized insulation/health trial; not RTC matched repair dose. Howden-Chapman et al / BMJ. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-07.