Arizona Administrative Code
Title 10 - LAW
Chapter 2 - ATTORNEY GENERAL - FAIR HOUSING
Article 1 - FAIR HOUSING
Section R10-2-102 - Fifty-five or Over Housing
Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 12, March 22, 2024
A. A housing facility shall be recognized as meeting the definition of "housing for older persons", and thus achieving exemption status, if it meets the standards set forth in A.R.S. § 41-1491.04 and this Section.
B. "Significant facilities and services specifically designed to meet the physical or social needs of older persons", as used in A.R.S. § 41-1491.04(C), include, among others, social and recreational programs, continuing education, information and counseling, recreational, homemaker, outside maintenance and referral services, an accessible physical environment, emergency and preventive health care programs, congregate dining facilities, transportation to facilitate access to social services, and services designed to encourage and assist residents to use the services and facilities available to them. The housing facility does not need to have all of these features to qualify for the exemption under this subsection; or
C. The housing facility can still meet the requirements of A.R.S. § 41-1491.04, even if it is not practicable to provide significant services and facilities designed to meet the physical or social needs of older persons, as long as the owner or manager of the housing facility demonstrates through credible and objective evidence that the provision of significant facilities and services designed to meet the physical or social needs of older persons would result in depriving older persons in the relevant geographic area of needed and desired housing. The following factors, among others, are relevant in meeting the requirements:
D. The following factors are relevant in determining whether the owner or manager of a housing facility has complied with the requirements of A.R.S. § 41-1491.04(C)(3):
E. A housing facility will not be denied or lose its recognition as "housing for older persons" solely because: