Health, Housing & Energy (HeHE) Programming

A household's health, housing conditions, energy costs, and long-term resilience are deeply connected -- but the programs designed to address them rarely are. A leaking roof causes mold. Mold causes asthma. An aging furnace creates unaffordable energy bills. Deferred housing conditions prevent participation in weatherization programs. And most households face all of this without a trusted guide through the system.

HeHE is the implementation platform 11th House Initiatives built to solve that problem.

The Problem

Public-benefit programs for housing stability, energy affordability, and healthy homes are fragmented, administratively complex, and difficult to navigate. Funding and solutions often exist. What's missing is the implementation infrastructure to connect households to them -- and move them through.

Most programs stop at awareness or referral. Households fall out at intake, at eligibility review, at the first contractor problem, at the paperwork. The result: vulnerable households remain underserved despite substantial available resources.

Our Approach

HeHE is designed as an end-to-end participant movement system, not a standalone outreach campaign or single-program service. We provide:

  • trusted community navigation and participant support

  • intake, eligibility screening, and application assistance

  • whole-home implementation coordination and contractor oversight

  • operational and compliance infrastructure

  • cross-sector partnership and referral systems

  • deferred-home stabilization support to remove barriers to downstream programs

We do not perform direct installation or construction. We do everything else -- building the implementation infrastructure that moves households from initial contact to completed outcomes.

Track Record

HeHE was developed by Eleventh House Solutions over more than 15 years of direct program delivery on Maryland's Eastern Shore and in Delaware. Under that history: $8M+ in program funding managed, 450+ households served, and program partnerships with state energy and housing agencies, utilities and cooperatives, HUD, the U.S. Department of Energy, and housing authorities across the region.

11th House Initiatives carries that track record forward as its nonprofit platform, with two active Maryland Energy Administration grant agreements currently in implementation: the Residential Energy Equity Program and the Affordable Electrification Outreach Program.

Current Initiatives

  • MEA Residential Energy Equity Program --

    • whole-home energy efficiency and electrification retrofits for income-qualifying households in all Eastern Shore counties

  • MEA Affordable Electrification Outreach Program --

    • community-based electrification education, navigation, and referral support for LMI households in Maryland's Eastern Region

    • whole-home retrofit coordination and implementation support

    • community energy navigation and education

Partners

HeHE works in coordination with utilities and cooperatives, housing authorities, state agencies, community organizations, and licensed contractors across Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Long-Term Vision

The Eastern Shore has households, resources, and programs -- but not enough implementation infrastructure connecting them. HeHE exists to build that infrastructure: the trusted relationships, operational systems, and cross-sector coordination capacity that turn available resources into completed outcomes for the communities that need them most.