On January 28, 2020, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued long-await updated guidelines to housing authorities, such as condominium associations and homeowners associations, related to service animals, support animals, and reasonable accommodation requests. A reasonable accommodation request is a tool that residents use when seeking accommodation from their housing authority to keep a service or support animal in a housing situation that may not otherwise allow for pets. An update to replace the last issued April 2013 guidelines was desperately needed, as housing authorities have continued to struggle with how to handle an influx of reasonable accommodation requests from residents.    Read the entire article……………………………….