Public Act 103-0981
 
SB3351 EnrolledLRB103 38388 KTG 68523 b

    AN ACT concerning housing.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Subsidized Housing Joint Occupancy Act is 
amended by changing Sections 2 and 4 as follows:
 
    (310 ILCS 75/2)  (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 1352)
    Sec. 2. Legislative findings. The General Assembly makes 
the following findings:
    (1) Elderly persons and persons with disabilities 
frequently desire to share a residence (i) to maximize the 
effectiveness of the portion of their often limited incomes 
that is spent for housing; (ii) for protection; and (iii) for 
assistance in performing necessary daily tasks of life such as 
cooking and cleaning.
    (1-5) Elderly parents of adult children with disabilities 
frequently desire to share a residence with their adult child 
with disabilities (i) to maximize the effectiveness of the 
portion of their often-limited incomes that is spent for 
housing; (ii) for protection; and (iii) for assistance in 
performing necessary daily tasks of life such as cooking and 
cleaning. 
    (2) Many elderly persons and persons with disabilities 
desire to live in federally subsidized housing units because 
of their limited incomes.
    (3) Rules of the federal Department of Housing and Urban 
Development permit 2 or more unrelated elderly persons or 
persons with disabilities to occupy the same unit in federally 
subsidized housing, although local housing authorities 
frequently do not permit those persons to occupy the same 
unit.
    (3-5) Rules of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban 
Development do not force persons of different generations or 
opposite sex to share the same bedroom in federally subsidized 
housing, although local housing authorities frequently require 
that living situation based upon the local housing authority's 
occupancy standards. 
    (4) The State of Illinois should do all it can to assist 
its elderly persons and persons with disabilities in 
maximizing the effectiveness of their incomes and to insure 
that those citizens are not unnecessarily burdened in 
accomplishing the daily tasks of life.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
 
    (310 ILCS 75/4)  (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 1354)
    Sec. 4. Joint occupancy of subsidized housing.  
    (a) Two elderly persons or two persons with disabilities 
who are not related to each other by blood or marriage shall 
not be prohibited from jointly occupying subsidized housing or 
a unit of subsidized housing solely because they are not 
related, provided they have filed a form for such joint 
occupation with the clerk of the county in which the housing 
they seek to occupy is located and otherwise meet all other 
eligibility requirements. A member of the joint occupancy may 
withdraw from the joint occupancy at any time.
    (b) An elderly parent with an adult child with 
disabilities of the opposite sex shall not be required to 
occupy subsidized housing with only one bedroom. Exceptions to 
the largest permissible unit size for subsidized housing shall 
be made when the elderly parent and adult child with 
disabilities of the opposite sex otherwise meet all other 
eligibility requirements. 
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)

Effective Date:  1/1/2025