As of the date of the issuance of this guidance, FHA complaints concerning denial of reasonable accommodations and disability access comprise almost 60% of all FHA complaints and those involving requests for reasonable accommodations for assistance animals are significantly increasing.

This guidance is provided as a tool for housing providers and persons with a disability to use at their discretion and provides a set of best practices for addressing requests for reasonable accommodations to keep animals in housing where individuals with disabilities reside or seek to reside. e will discuss HUD’s new ruling on verification of service or assistance animals.

It covers the questions to ask in determining if the animal is a service animal or an assistive animal. The seminar covers the new time frame for answering requests for a reasonable accommodation for and animal. Also covered are the various questions concerning breed, weight, type and size of the animal. The other important topic is verifications of the need for the service or assistance an animal to prove a nexus between the disability and the need for an animal of some type. Also covered will be the methods used to verify need.

In this program, you’ll learn how to:

• Discussed will be a review of the protected classes.
• Time frames for decision on reasonable accommodation requests
• Difference between service and assistance animals
• What questions may be asked about disability
• Definition of disability when concerning accommodation
• Online animal verifications