What if a housing provider fails to act promptly on a reasonable accommodation request?
A provider has an obligation to provide prompt responses to reasonable accommodation requests. An undue delay in responding to a reasonable accommodation request may be deemed to be a failure to provide a reasonable accommodation. Most leases include statements such as “PROHIBITED CONDUCT. You and your occupants or guests may not engage in the following prohibited activities: loud or obnoxious conduct; disturbing or threatening the rights, comfort, health, safety, or convenience of others in or near the apartment community, …… Most leases note, “COMMUNITY POLICIES OR RULES: …..Our rules are considered part of this Lease Contract. We may make reasonable changes to written rules, effective immediately, if they are distributed and applicable to all units in the apartment community and do not change the dollar amounts on page 1 of this Lease Agreement.” In other words you can designate all units in a building as non-smoking with a written notice, as well as advertise and attach an ad
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