Fair Housing Act: Personal Grill in Condo Was Not a Reasonable Accommodation

The Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA) require condominium associations to make reasonable accommodations to disabled co-owners under certain circumstances. However, condominium associations should keep in mind that co-owners are not entitled to every accommodation that is requested. Rather, co-owners are only entitled to accommodations that are necessary to ameliorate the effects of a disability as was the case in Phillips v Acacia on the Green Condo Ass’n, unpublished opinion of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, issued October 7, 2020 (Case No. 19-cv-1277).    Read the article………………………………

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