55+ Communities in Arkansas

Arkansas's small confirmed tracked inventory spans both new construction and resale, with no dominant single builder or master-plan pattern. Stonebrook Cove (Conway, Faulkner County, construction began 2014, 26 single-family homes) and Arbors at Deer Crossing (Bentonville, Benton County, built 2007-2017, 114 attached homes) are both now fully-built, resale-only communities. Arbors at Pinnacle Ridge (Rogers, Benton County, 94 attached homes, prices from the mid $200ks to the mid $400ks) is also a completed, resale community. Elington Village (Bentonville, Benton County) is a smaller patio-home community with thinner available sourcing on its total unit count and exact construction timeline. Pioneer Village (Horseshoe Bend, Izard County, 64 individually-owned homes) is a mature, fully-built community. Del Webb/PulteGroup has no Arkansas presence: Del Webb's own site lists 21 states where it currently builds Sun City, Solera, or 'by Del Webb'-branded communities, and Arkansas is not among them. No other national active-adult production builder (Lennar's 55+ sub-brands, Toll Brothers' Regency collection, K. Hovnanian's Four Seasons, Epcon's Courtyards) was found operating in Arkansas either; Rausch-Coleman Homes, a large regional Arkansas/Oklahoma/Texas/Kansas builder, was found marketing at least two '55+' priced listings in Bentonville (from roughly $206,100 and $229,500) on NewHomeSource, but no independently confirmed, distinctly-named community could be matched to these listings, so they are not published under a guessed name.

Arkansas has its own codified state-law housing-for-older-persons exemption rather than relying solely on the federal Fair Housing Act/HOPA framework by reference. Arkansas Code Annotated section 16-123-307, part of the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission subchapter (Title 16, Subtitle 7, Chapter 123, Subchapter 3), defines 'housing for older persons' in the same three-part structure as the federal HOPA standard: (A) housing provided under a state or federal program HUD determines is specifically designed for elderly persons; (B) housing intended for, and solely occupied by, persons 62 years of age or older; or (C) housing intended and operated for occupancy by persons 55 years of age or older, provided at least 80 percent of the occupied units have at least one person 55 or older and the community publishes and adheres to policies demonstrating that intent. The statute also carries a legacy transition provision (residents in occupancy on or before September 13, 1988 may remain regardless of age without defeating the exemption) and a good-faith-reliance liability shield. This is a directly state-codified mirror of the federal 80/20 standard -- similar in shape to Connecticut's and New York's prior findings (state law directly incorporating/mirroring the federal HOPA standard) rather than a distinct independent state-law overlay like Massachusetts's registration-based exemption or California's stricter 100%-occupancy Unruh Act. This citation (ACA 16-123-307) should be confirmed against the Arkansas General Assembly's own published code (arkleg.state.ar.us). Arkansas's CCRC/Life Plan Community sector is real, though a comparatively small number were found: Butterfield Trail Village (Fayetteville, Washington County, founded 1986 by five local churches), Parkway Village (Little Rock, Pulaski County, an 87-acre Baptist Health-affiliated campus), and Methodist Village Senior Living (Fort Smith, Sebastian County, nearly 60 years old, the only complete continuum-of-care Life Plan Community in the River Valley) were all confirmed and excluded because this directory does not cover continuing-care communities; this is very likely an undercount rather than an exhaustive census, since the CCRC sector was not investigated in every Arkansas county with equal depth. No standalone, market-rate stock-cooperative 55+ housing sector comparable to Minnesota's statewide Realife Cooperative network was independently confirmed in Arkansas; one general senior-cooperative-housing source lists Arkansas among a handful of states (alongside Florida, Texas, and Washington) where senior cooperative housing is 'gaining traction,' but no specific, named Arkansas cooperative community could be identified.