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2009
Federal fair housing laws define a "service animal" as any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability. If they meet this definition, animals are considered service animals under the law regardless of whether they have been...
03/20/2009
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I wanted to let everyone know that I just started a new group here on Active Rain relating to fair housing issues and questions. I started this group after several people had suggested that it would be a good place for members to share ideas on this imporant issue. This new group is a place wher...
03/14/2009
Courts have traditionally treated requests for parking spaces as requests for a reasonable accommodation and have placed the responsibility for providing the parking space on the housing provider, even if provision of an accessible or assigned parking space results in some cost to the provider. ...
03/14/2009
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03/14/2009
Persons who meet the Fair Housing Act’s definition of “person with a disability” may be entitled to a reasonable modification under the Act. However, there must be an identifiable relationship, or nexus, between the requested modification and the individual’s disability. If no such nexus exists, ...
03/14/2009
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For those of you who are math junkies, you might already know that today is Pi Day. Pi Day is a “holiday” celebrated every March 14th (3/14). The Greek letter "pi" is the mathematical symbol for the relationship between the circumference of a circle and its diameter. Pi = 3.14. Because March ...
03/14/2009
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Here is another example of a lawsuit that was recently filed by the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") to enforce the Fair Housing Act. I try to post summaries of these types of cases in order to provide timely updates to real estate professionals about the "dos and don'ts" under the Fa...
03/13/2009
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I meant to post this yesterday, but time slipped away and I missed the opportunity. But given Chuck Norris' cult status, I figured better late than never. Yesterday, March 10, 2009, was Chuck Norris' 69th birthday! Chuck is the beloved action film star from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and the ...
03/11/2009
Question: What kinds of information, if any, may a housing provider request from a person with an obvious or known disability who is requesting a reasonable accommodation or reasonable modification? A housing provider is entitled to obtain information that is necessary to evaluate whether a req...
03/07/2009
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