Accommodating Assistance Animals in Your Rental Community

ONLINE EDUCATION Accommodating Assistance Animals in Your Rental Community

One of the hottest HUD complaint topics today involves the accommodation of assistance animals in rental communities. The laws are pretty clear but questions remain over what constitutes a legitimate accommodation request and how accommodating rental-housing providers need to be. Find out what you need to know about assistance animals and accommodation requests — from the 101 basics to the 2020 HUD Assistance Animal Notice. This webinar is ideal for independent rental owners, onsite property managers, and others who deal with assistance animal requests on a daily basis. Our panelists will share their knowledge and experience to help you navigate and stay on the right side of the law.

Attendees will learn:

• The differences between HUD, DOJ, FHA, and ADA for assistance animal guidelines • What is considered a pet vs. a support animal vs. a service animal • Best practices for reviewing reasonable accommodation requests

Featuring:

Victoria Cowart, CPM®

Director of Education and Outreach PetScreening

Rondi Walsh, Esq.

Partner Newmeyer & Dillion

Moderator:

Michael Brown, CPM®

Director of Property Operations Advanced Management Company Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Time: 10 a.m. Location: Zoom Webinar Cost: $20 members $45 non-members

Register at www.AAOC.com

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Walker added that Long Beach would not have been able to achieve the expansion envisioned in its citywide EV charging network program without Charge Ready’s assistance.

SCE will continue to focus on providing charging infrastructure at workplaces, public parking lots, schools, hospitals and destination centers, with an added emphasis on condominium and apartment complexes.

In the interest of making EV charging available to all Californians, Charge Ready sets a target to locate 50% of the chargers in state-designated disadvantaged communities, or economicallyimpacted communities that suffer most from the negative effects of air pollution.

In addition to Charge Ready for passenger EVs, SCE launched a program last year for larger trucks, buses and off-road industrial equipment called Charge Ready Transport, which aims to add charging to support at least 8,490 medium- and heavy-duty EVs over a five-year period. The $356 million program is also modeled after the Charge Ready pilot.

For more information on the Charge Ready program, charging station installation opportunities at your apartment community, or SCE rebate programs for multifamily properties, contact Mary Finn-Parker at mary. finn@sce.com or (714) 973-5777 or visit www.SCE.com/multifamily.

“SCE will continue to focus on providing charging infrastructure at workplaces, public parking lots, schools, hospitals and destination centers, with an added emphasis on condominium and apartment complexes.”

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additional $26.6 billion on top of Congress’ $47 billion rental assistance funding. The government’s prolonged inaction, paired with a sluggish rollout and the CDC eviction moratorium, has only allowed unfunded rent debt to continue to balloon.

Since the onset of the pandemic, NAA has aggressively advocated to protect the interests of the rental housing industry. We have called out the dangers and short-sightedness of eviction moratoria and asked for its sunset to both the 116th and 117th Congresses, in meetings with both the recent and current White House administrations and across all levels of media. NAA was among the first to take legal action challenging the CDC’s authority last September by joining the National Civil Liberties Alliance lawsuit, Richard Lee Brown, et al. v. Secretary Alex Azar, et al. The COVID-19 pandemic was devastating, and if we do not act, the housing affordability crisis may grow into a catastrophe where the government could invoke more “emergency” remedies. With the meter on rent debt still running, political will waning and Congress moving past COVID-relief measures, NAA is putting up the greatest fight yet and asking the courts for two things: Fair compensation for damages suffered under the unlawful CDC order and an assurance that the federal government can never do this again.

NAA is proud to take action for our members and work to stabilize the industry. The rental housing industry cannot be held solely responsible for an unfunded rent debt while the federal government trades one crisis for another. Ultimately, making housing providers and their residents whole again will help secure the long-term health of the rental housing industry and ensures households across the income spectrum have continued access to rental housing.