{"id":11615,"date":"2017-06-22T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2017-06-22T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:17:09","slug":"service-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/politics\/service-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting for the right to have a service or assistant animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Animals and endorphins<\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes working hard is hard work. Having gone into exhaustive (not to say exhausting) detail about the National Association of Realtors\u2019s reply to HUD\u2019s recent request for comment elsewhere I think both my beloved readership and I deserve a treat.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/politics\/hud-secretary-ben-carson-confirmed-senate-58-41-vote\/\">HUD Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson confirmed by Senate<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91813\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bar.jpg\" alt=\"bar\" width=\"100\" height=\"19\" \/><br \/>\nTherefore\u2026 everyone needs to watch videos of adorable adorable animals!<\/p>\n<h2>Animal animosity<\/h2>\n<p>Seriously, take a second and watch this video. It\u2019ll improve your day, I\u2019ll wait.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vRzp9O9Qc1o?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let no one say The Real Daily did not bring heroic helper monkeys into your life.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Service animals are, believe it or not, a complicated legal issue. What is and isn\u2019t allowed, what does and doesn\u2019t qualify, touches on everything from housing to zoning to healthcare to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<h2>The case for service animals<\/h2>\n<p>Service animals are also part of the current dialogue between the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Association of Realtors. Really!<\/p>\n<p>Hallowed halls in which to be debating the provenance of your stalwart guide horse or emotional support snake, for certain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Real talk, though: service animals are a big deal in housing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s why they featured prominently in NAR\u2019s recent reply to HUD\u2019s request for comment pursuant to their reform mandate. They raise complicated issues of mobility, hygiene and tenant wellbeing for realtors, landlords and homeowners alike.<\/p>\n<h2>Animals currently in service<\/h2>\n<p>NAR\u2019s argument is notably at odds with the rest of its letter. NAR is on board with the overall anti-regulation tone of the current administration, as it has been ever since endorsing current HUD Secretary Ben Carson for the job when he was first proposed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The one exception is service animals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The NAR letter, which argues for a relaxation of HUD regulation in everything from residential zoning to housing segregation, actually calls for stricter oversight in the matter of service animals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HUD\u2019s current standard is that a person seeking accommodation for a service animal request it from the property owner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The owner may require confirmation from a medical professional that the animal is a necessity.<\/p>\n<p>HUD has no legally mandated standards for what specific certifications the medical professional must possess, or what level of examination must take place before the confirmation may be provided.<\/p>\n<h2>Just doing research<\/h2>\n<p>So fluffy &#8211; or scaly, not forgetting about you up there, Emotional Support Snake &#8211; animals are, in fact, Serious Business.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, that should give you a half-decent excuse for if your boss busts you watching that capuchin video.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0#ServiceDoggos<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(POLITICS) The newest housing drama comes against our favorite furry animal companions and whether or not they should be allowed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337683,"featured_media":11625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[365],"tags":[1617,1618,368,263,1234],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-emotional-support","tag-hud","tag-nar","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/service-doggs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11626,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions\/11626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}