What has the Office of Housing been working on lately?

Dignity on Wheels trailer

2025

April

  1. C6. Receive and Authorize Submittals of the 2024 Housing Element Annual Progress Report and Housing Successor Agency Annual Report to California Department of Housing and Community Development and Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

2024 

  1. Hosted Affordable Housing webinar with Silicon Valley @ Home
  2. August 13, 2024 Council Items
    1. C9: Approve Updates to the Community Advisory Commission Bylaws Addendum and Approve Changing the Commission Name
    2. C10: Receive Report on Rent Relief Program, Approve an Agreement with FORWARD to Administer the Program, and Approve Programmatic Updates
  1. June 18, 2024 Council Items
    1. Item C8: Approve an Amendment to the Agreement with Housekeys to Execute a One-Year Extension for Administration of the Below Market Rate Homeownership Program
    2. Item C9: Approve an Agreement with WeHOPE for Homeless Outreach, Assessment, and Case Management Services
    3. Item 20: Conduct a Public Hearing to Approve the Allocations for the FY2024-25 Community Development Block Grant, and the Corresponding Annual Action Plan
  1. Presented an overview of Housing Division’s work for the Community Advisory Commission’s Community Engagement and Affordable Housing and Building Safety Month Event
  1. April 16, 2024 Council Items
    1. Item C8: Receive Report on American Rescue Plan Act Funding for Rent and Mortgage Relief Program and Approve Transfer of $216,125.00 in Mortgage Relief Funds to Rent Relief
    2. Item C9: Receive the July - December 2023 Report for Unhoused Services 
  1. City launched its Workforce Housing Rental Assistance Program to assist extremely low-income households who either live and/or work in Milpitas with $645 in rental assistance for 24 months.
  2. March 19, 2024 Council Items
    1. Item C7: Designation of Community Development Block Grant Program Certifying Officer for the National Environmental Policy Act
    2. Item C8: Receive the 2023 Housing Element Annual Progress Report and Housing Successor Agency Annual Report and Authorize the Submittal of Both Reports to California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR)
  1. February 6, 2024 Council Items
    1. Item 15: Review Applications Received for the 2024-2025 Community Development Block Grant Annual Action Plan

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