That the majority of Fair Housing complaints are regarding disability? Of those, an increasing number are regarding reasonable accommodation requests for service animals.
According to the Fair Housing Assistance Program, 44 percent of complaints included disability as a basis, followed by race at 20 percent and national origin at just under 10 percent. In 2020 there was an uptick in the “other” category of complaints regarding source of income, sexual orientation, domestic violence, military status, and retaliation. The number of source-of-income complaints has been steadily increasing since 2017.
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