This decision involved an apartment building’s no-dog rule. A rent controlled tenant, has “end-stage renal disease and depression” and had twice requested “permission to keep an emotional support dog in his home.” The first request was made in June 2015. A second request was made in June 2017 for a second dog after his first dog had died.

With respect to his 2017 request, the tenant submitted a doctor’s letter, which “confirmed that he received hemodialysis at home five times a week…and a letter from his therapist, noting that refusing the request for an emotional support dog would ‘be a serious threat to his health and his life.’”

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