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Adopt a Policy Addressing How to Handle a Request for an Accommodation or Modification

For years, we have been talking about owners’ and occupants’ right to request from a community association a reasonable accommodation or modification to allow a disabled person to fully use and enjoy a unit within the community association. Requests to have a dog recognized as an assistance animal are, likely, the most common form of a request for a reasonable accommodation. It is also that type of a request for an accommodation that is likely to be the most common subject of a Charge of Discrimination filed by an owner or occupant whose request was denied by a community association. It seems as if this past year, the number of requests for accommodations to allow an assistance animal has greatly increased.

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