Making a Reasonable Accommodation to a Landlord’s No Pets Policy
Although a landlord can prohibit tenants having pets completely from a property, the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) requires a landlord to make a reasonable accommodation to a “No Pets Policy.” There are two types of pets that commonly fall within a reasonable accommodation under the ADA and that landlords encounter, a “service animal” and […]
Ninth Circuit Finds Newport Beach Ordinance Regulating Group Homes Discriminatory
The Ninth Circuit recently found that Newport Beach’s regulation of sober living homes violated the Fair Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, and the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution because the ordinance practically prohibited new group homes for recovering alcoholics and drug abusers from opening […]
