WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 18, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)announced today that it is charging the East River Housing Corporation in New York, NY,with violating the Fair Housing Act by denying a request from a tenant with disabilities to reside in her apartment with a medically-prescribed support animal. HUD’s charge alleges that East River employees ignored the woman’s many requests to keep her emotional support dog in her apartment and moved to evict her when she refused to get rid of the dog.
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