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Population: 71,533
Households: 20,792
Employed Residents: 34,789
Jobs: 47,538
Housing Units: 21,450

Employed Residents per Household: 1.67
Jobs per Employed Resident: 1.37
Jobs-Housing Balance Ratio: 2.22
Low-Wage Jobs-Housing Fit Ratio: 9.50

Information above from ACS Census 2015 5 year estimates and 2015 LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics 

2017 Homeless Count: 66 persons, all unsheltered (-46% from 2015)

Regional Housing Need Allocation (RHNA)

Milpitas 2015-2023 RHNA Goals

Affordable Housing Policies

Housing Element Policies

The Housing Element of Milpitas’ General Plan has several policies encouraging the production of affordable housing, including:

  • A range of financial incentives for developers who agree to provide affordable units, including loans, grants, and fee reductions or waivers.
  • Relaxation of development standards in order to achieve more intensive land utilization and, as a result, lower per-unit land costs.  Such modifications include reduced parking requirements, increased height limits, density bonuses, and reduced setback requirements.
  • Production of units affordable to extremely low-income households is encouraged in affordable housing developments, with financial subsidies provided to developers to achieve affordability to ELI households.
  • Milpitas has adopted a density bonus ordinance to encourage affordable housing development.
Inclusionary Housing 

On June 12, 2018, the City Council considered introducing an Affordable Housing Ordinance (AHO). As initially proposed, the AHO set an inclusionary requirement that would require a developer to set aside 10% of the units, in any new residential construction of 10 units or more, as affordable. After consideration, the Council requested to increase the existing inclusionary requirement to 15% of the units in any development of 10 units or more from the initially proposed 10%. The AHO allows developers to meet this 15% inclusionary housing obligation by providing affordable rental units for very low or low income households and affordable ownership units for very low, low or moderate income households.

Affordable Housing Impact Fees

On March 5th, 2019, Council voted to adopt Affordable Housing impact fees for both residential and non-residential as part of their affordable housing ordinance. After discussion, council voted to adopt fees at $31 per square foot for residential rental property. A non-residential fee was also adopted with a sliding scale at $1 per square foot for new warehouse industrial development which matures up to $4 per square foot over the next 2 years. The fee setting for office/retail is set at $4 per square foot and matures up to $8 per square foot.

Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)

Between 2007 and 2014, the City of Milpitas permitted approximately 6 ADUs, for an average of 0.86 ADUs per year.  

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