Tenant allowed to keep emotional support dog

Posted on April 25th, 2011 by Joseph William Singer.
Categories: Fair Housing Act, Leaseholds.

A tenant with AIDS and related illnesses won $25,000 in emotional distress damages from his landlord for refusing to make an exception to a no-pets policy to allow the tenant to live with his emotional support dog. The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination made the award and ordered the landlord to allow the dog as a reasonable accommodation to his disability which included depression and anxiety. The landlord was also fined $5,000. read article

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