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F. R. § 100.204  \nWhat is Housing?  \nA dwelling covered by the Fair Housing Act includes:  \n• Apartments  \n• Condominiums  \n• Public and Section 8 housing, SROs  \n• Children’s homes  \n• Nursing homes  \n• Farmworker housing  \n• Race track housing  \n• RV parks  \n• Most houses for rent  \n• Residential hotels  \n• Dorms  \n• Mobile home parks  \n• Mobile home lots  \n• Summer bungalows  \n• Group homes  \n• Transitional housing  \n• Many shelters  \n5   \nPerson with a Disability  \nThe Fair Housing Act defines a person with a disability to include:  \n• Individuals with a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities;  \n• Individuals who are regarded as having such an impairment; or  \n• Individuals with a record of such an impairment.  \nSimilar to ADA and Section 504 definitions  \nSee 42 U.S. C. § 3602(h)  \nImpairment of Daily Activities  \n[“Individuals with a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one more major life activities”]  \n• “Impairment” means: “unable to perform, or is significantly limited inan activity that an average person in the general population can perform.”  \n• Major life activities are activities that are of central importance to daily life , such as: seeing, hearing, walking, breathing, performing manual tasks, caring for oneself, learning, and speaking  \n• Chronic or episodic disorders that are substantially limiting when active or have a high likelihood of recurrence in substantially limiting forms, have been found to be disabilities.  \n• Includes physical and mental impairments  \nSee DOJ & HUD, Joint Statement: Reasonable Accommodations Under the Fair Housing Act, May 17, 2004, 3-4, Secretary v. Jankowski, HUDALJ 05-93-0517- 1 (September 7, 1995).  \nor  \nperforming,  \n7   \nRegarded as Having an Impairment  \n[“Individuals who are regarded as having such an impairment”]  \n• Regarded as having an impairment means:  \n1) Has a physical or mental impairment that does not substantially limit one or more major life activities but that is treated by another person as constituting such a limitation;  \n2) Has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities only as a result of the attitudes of other toward such impairment; or  \n3) Has none of the impairments defined in paragraph (a) of this defin","cbCaip49kPuhdWT9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip49kPuhdWT9","pdf",851366,18,"English","# Disability\n## Discrimination: Access to Assistance Animals Under the Fair Housing Act\n## Disability and Fair Housing\n### Reasonable accommodations\n### What is a disability?\n### Identifying a disability\n### Requesting an accommodation\n### Interactive process\n### Assistive animals\n### Breed and weight restrictions\n### Certifications and forms\n### FHA versus FHA\n### Reasonable accommodation cases generally\n## Background\n## Reasonable accommodations & the Fair Housing Act\n### Discrimination under the Act\n### “Refusal to make reasonable accommodations”\n## What is Housing?\n## Person with a Disability\n### Physical or mental impairment\n### Regarded as having an impairment\n### Record of an impairment\n## Direct Threat\n## Questions: Disability","[{\"question\":\"What does the Fair Housing Act require regarding reasonable accommodations?\",\"answer\":\"It prohibits refusing to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services when needed for a person with a disability to have equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the Fair Housing Act define a “person with a disability”?\",\"answer\":\"It includes individuals with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits major life activities, individuals regarded as having such an impairment, and individuals with a record of such an impairment.\"},{\"question\":\"Are there situations where the Act does not protect a tenant with a disability?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. 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