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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
NOTICE TO ALL RESIDENTS AND APPLICANTS:
The Housing Authority has a procedure for persons with disabilities to request reasonableaccommodation.
Where the reasonable accommodation is requested by an applicant in order to overcome negative information, or by a resident in order to overcome lease violation, we will make the following additional determinations:
What is the essential impact of the negative information or lease violation?
How serious is it, and how exactly does it impact us?
Does the requested accommodation eliminate, or satisfactorily reduce, the essential impact, so that the person can occupy the housing with a reasonable expectation of success?
If the requested accommodation is reasonable and produces a reasonable expectation of success, we will grant the request as long as it does not jeopardize the integrity of our program.
Reasonable accommodations will be focused on the individual and designed to address each persons situation.
In some cases, reasonable accommodations may be perceived incorrectly by non-disabled residents as conferring a special advantage on a person with disabilities: however, we will not base our decisions on how the decisions will be perceived, but rather whether the accommodations is effective in removing the barriers which inhibit a person with disabilities from accessing and using the housing program.
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