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In its March lesson, Fair Housing Coach tackles one of the most challenging aspects of fair housing law: how to handle requests for assistance animals as a reasonable accommodation for an individual with a disability.
In general, communities may set their own policies regulating pet ownership, but fair housing laws don’t consider assistance animals as pets. Whatever your policy, federal law requires communities to consider a request for an exception to allow an individual with a disability to have an assistance animal as a reasonable accommodation.
