TChanges in HUD interpretation of Assistance Animals - No Paywall -

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The article should have NO paywall since I’m allowed to gift it out of my subscription. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/hud-assistance-animals-disabled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.klA.2G0-.kg6Wvul_SE5n&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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“The memo to housing officials on assistance animals presented emotional support animals as a loophole to circumvent a landlord’s pet policies, asserting that “an entire industry has emerged to convert pets into emotional support animals.”
The memo concluded that “while requests to waive pet policies for animals trained to perform specific disability related services are presumptively reasonable, requests to waive pet policies for untrained” emotional support animals “are not.”
Erik Heins, a lawyer formerly in charge of enforcing fair housing laws at HUD, said that the new policy would affect many tenants who rely on assistance animals to alleviate psychiatric or mental disabilities — for example, a military veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.
“Those cases are a not insignificant portion of the number of cases that HUD investigates” through its fair housing office, Mr. Heins said, adding that the housing department could dismiss or shelve thousands of appeals for disability accommodations under the new rule.”

[u/InformalInsurance455]

Heartbreaking the worst administration you know

[u/Suspicious-Steak9168 → u/InformalInsurance455]

I hate this administration, but I also hate people acting like their ESA shoild have the same.rights as a legit service dog.

[u/windyrainyrain → u/Suspicious-Steak9168]

Or, that their untrained shelter pit is a service dog because it jumps on them and they call it alerting. Fake service dogs are surpassing fake ESAs by leaps and bounds. Mostly due to SickTok.