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Originally Posted by Skip
This is from the Federal Register...
There continues to be confusion concerning what is often referred to as the 80/20 split. HOPA states that the minimum standard to obtain housing for persons who are 55 years of age or older status is that at least 80% of the occupied units be occupied by persons 55 years or older. There is no requirement that the remaining 20% of the occupied units be occupied by persons under the age of 55, nor is there a requirement that those units be used only for persons where at least one member of the household is 55 years of age or older. Communities may decline to permit any persons under the age of 55, may require that 100% of the units have at least one occupant who is 55 years of age or older, may permit up to 20% of the occupied units to be occupied by persons who are younger than 55 years of age, or set whatever requirements they wish, as long as at least 80% of the occupied units are occupied by one person 55 years of age or older, and so long as such requirements are not inconsistent with the overall intent to be housing for older persons.
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[QUOTE=Dr Winston O Boogie jr;1121075]Eighty per cent of the
homes must be occupied by at least
one person over the age of 55. It's not that 80% of the people have to be over 55. In the most extreme example, if we had an average of four people per house only 75% of those people must be over the age of 55 in 80% of the homes. The the other 20% of the home could be occupied by four people all whom are under the age of 55.
Look at it this way. You have ten homes with four people in each. Eight of the homes each have one person over 55 and three people under age 55 living in them. The other two homes have four people each under the age of 55 living in them. That would give you forty residents, eight over age 55 and 32 under age 55. That's 80% under 55 and 20% over 55 and all within the law.
In fact in some of the neighborhoods where there are mostly three bedroom homes it's possible that the percentage of over 55 year olds could be even smaller. And I would suspect that there are an average of more then two bedrooms per home in The Villages so it might be possible that less than 20% of the residents could be under ager 55 and we'd still be within the law.
It is an extremely unlikely scenario, but permissible under the law.[/QUOTE
The posts by Skip and Dr. B take different approaches but by understanding both there should be no more questions. It is all there!