Yes, you could lose your apartment. A senior apartment will not allow children. Thats the whole reason its a senior apartment. You need to talk to the agency who handles your HUD application. You will need a bigger apartment. There are laws where children need their own rooms. The same sex cannot sleep in the same room after a certain age. And if your on HUD, how are you going to support them. Is the County going to give you money for their care. I think you need to talk to Social Services to find out what you are entitled to.
DTHOMASROSE, welcome to the forum. We really need more information, such as what are the ages of your grandkids? Are they grade school or graduated from high school? Do you know for sure you will get custody? Is the paperwork/Court in the works?
Most senior complexes have an age limit, plus a limit on how long a young person can stay with you as a guest. Some places have a 2 or 3 week limit. This is something you need to check on immediately. And if your rental doesn't allow that, you need to quickly start looking for a non-senior HUD apartment with the required number of bedrooms per local zoning. I realize this isn't easy, as the timing of everything could be a challenge.
There are many things you need to think about such as if the grandchildren are in school, where is the school located, would your grandkids be able to walk to school or be able to walk to the closest school bus spot? Or would you need to drive them to school? This is something you will need to keep in mind.
Most Senior housing has an age limit. Typically 65 and older. Some may be as young as 62 but you would have to check what the age limit is where you want to move. And even if you could have them in a Senior building I doubt they would be happy with the living arrangement and rules that they would have to follow.
I doubt very much if you will be allowed to stay in senior only housing with children you get custody of. But this, of course is a question for you to ask those involved in your own housing, not a network of strangers from around the world each dealing with their own sets of laws and their own research into them.
I sure want to wish you the best of luck checking all of this out.
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Most senior complexes have an age limit, plus a limit on how long a young person can stay with you as a guest. Some places have a 2 or 3 week limit. This is something you need to check on immediately. And if your rental doesn't allow that, you need to quickly start looking for a non-senior HUD apartment with the required number of bedrooms per local zoning. I realize this isn't easy, as the timing of everything could be a challenge.
There are many things you need to think about such as if the grandchildren are in school, where is the school located, would your grandkids be able to walk to school or be able to walk to the closest school bus spot? Or would you need to drive them to school? This is something you will need to keep in mind.
Hope everything works out.
And even if you could have them in a Senior building I doubt they would be happy with the living arrangement and rules that they would have to follow.
But this, of course is a question for you to ask those involved in your own housing, not a network of strangers from around the world each dealing with their own sets of laws and their own research into them.
I sure want to wish you the best of luck checking all of this out.