PART IV. HOUSING FOR ELDERS AND TEACHERS

 

A.  Housingfor Elders

 

[§356D-71]  Resident selection; dwellingunits; rentals.  In the administration of elder or elderly housing, theauthority shall observe the following with regard to resident selection, dwellingunits, and rentals:

(1)  Except as provided in this section, the authorityshall accept elder or elderly households as residents in the housing projects;

(2)  It may accept as residents in any dwelling unitone or more persons, related or unrelated by blood or marriage.  It may alsoaccept as a resident in any dwelling unit or in any housing project, in thecase of illness or other disability of an elder who is a resident in thedwelling unit or in the project, a person designated by the elder as theelder's live-in aide whose qualifications as a live-in aide are verified by theauthority, although the person is not an elder; provided that the person shallcease to be a resident therein upon the recovery of, or removal from theproject of, the elder;

(3)  It may rent or lease to an elder a dwelling unitconsisting of any number of rooms as the authority deems necessary or advisableto provide safe and sanitary accommodations to the proposed resident orresidents without overcrowding;

(4)  Notwithstanding that the elder has no writtenrental agreement or that the agreement has expired, during hospitalization ofthe elder due to illness or other disability so long as the elder continues totender the usual rent to the authority or proceeds to tender receipts for rentlawfully withheld, no action or proceeding to recover possession of thedwelling unit may be maintained against the elder, nor shall the authorityotherwise cause the elder to quit the dwelling unit involuntarily, demand anincrease in rent from the elder, or decrease the services to which the elderhas been entitled; and

(5)  Elder or elderly housing shall be subject tochapter 521. [L 2006, c 180, pt of §2]