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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1848474)

No, it is not part of "Federal guidelines." There is an actual law (not a guideline), called the Housing for Older Persons Act, aka HOPA.

Here is the official documentation of the Act, with questions and answers, directly from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development:

The Fair Housing Act: Housing for Older Persons | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/DOC_7769.PDF

And an archived page originating at 55places.com that explains it to the layman, dated 2005 (before you moved to the Villages) is here:

Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 - Age-Restricted Housing Laws

The 19-year-old restriction is arbitrary, not federally mandated, and at the discretion of each community. It could be 20, or 18, or 32-and-three-months. As long as one person in each of a minimum of 80% of all homes in the community is 55 years old or older, it satisfies the "55+" designation.

I don't see the "no one under the age of 19" provision anywhere in these links. Is that a Villages rule? If so, would they be able to legally change that and increase the age? Could they say that no one under the age of 50 can live here?

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Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com (Post 1848143)

Please talking about the children probably living with parents could be 60 have many of you forgot this is adult community. At 82 and having moved through 5 homes and now in Fenney, each neighborhood had younger people living in it , now out in Fenney they are much younger many in , 50’sand early 60’S also quite a few still working including at least 3 airline pilots I’ve met Yes this is adult community but not everybody is old or feels old, one of the many things that I like about the Southern end is the younger adult homeowners

LOL, you said 50’s & 60’s, huh yea, 50’s is the age you have to be to live in TV, 55. As far as kids to live here, you can’t just adopt some young person & just think you can just walk into TV. They would have to be handicapped in some way for the parent having to have to help them. Most of us knows what TV would look like if we just let kids run like some people do. Say what you want but the Morse’s aren’t going to let young unattended young people run wild & trash what took them yrs. to build. Your children can live here if a parent or both work in TV. That’s what the school is for!

Of Course average age is going down...............when my bride hits 60, she says her next birthday will be her 59th. :)