HUD Moves to Limit Assistance Animals for Disabled Tenants

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/hud-assistance-animals-disabled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.klA.ItxF.VQX2pCCDukBr&smid=url-share

title-"HUD Moves to Limit Assistance Animals for Disabled Tenants
Housing officials were told to exclude emotional support animals and tighten the definition of a service animal when granting accommodations for disabled tenants.


snip-"The Trump administration on Friday narrowed the definition of an “assistance animal” allowed to live with disabled tenants in housing, a move that could lead to thousands of animals and their owners being evicted.

In an internal memo obtained by The New York Times, the Department of Housing and Urban Development told leaders in its fair housing office that “effective immediately” the department would exclude emotional support animals and more strictly police the definition of a qualified service animal when granting accommodations for disabled tenants."


snip-"Erik Heins, a lawyer formerly in charge of enforcing fair housing laws at HUD, said that the new policy would affect many tenants who rely on assistance animals to alleviate psychiatric or mental disabilities — for example, a military veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.

“Those cases are a not insignificant portion of the number of cases that HUD investigates” through its fair housing office, Mr. Heins said, adding that the housing department could dismiss or shelve thousands of appeals for disability accommodations under the new rule."

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[mountain grammy]

1. chilling...monsters in charge.

[hunter]

2. Trump and his crew are cruel psychopaths.

They truly believe that empathy is a weakness and would be going full Nazi if they thought they could get away with it.

We must resist however we are able.

[ShazzieB]

3. Welcome to Trump's America!

The Land of the Free... as long as you're white, male, straight, cis gendered, able bodied, rich, and claim to be Christian!

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. Oh, you don't have to be 'able-bodied'...

Just be rich.

There are enough 'Jabba The Hut' wannabes in our society (and our regime) that are very wealthy and powerful while being nothing more than a fleshy blob to show that being 'able bodied' is not a requirement for the regime.

[ShazzieB]

5. Oh, I had reasons for putting that in! 😉

I included "able-bodied" in that list because it's the opposite of disabled. I don't believe disabled people are any safer in Trump's America than brown skinned immigrants or trans people. He has made it abundantly clear that he doesn't think much of people who have disabilities. Here are a few examples.

+ Mocking a disabled reporter at one of his rallies:
New York Times slams Trump's mocking of reporter as 'outrageous'
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-mocks-new-york-times-reporter-serge-kovaleski-216219

+ Expressing disdain for disabled veterans:
STATEMENT: Trump Should Apologize for Disgraceful Comments on Soldiers and Wounded Veterans
https://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement-trump-apologize-disgraceful-comments-soldiers-wounded-veterans/

+ Cutting medicaid benefits that many disabled Americans (among others) rely on for health care:
Medicaid Cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Leave 3 in 10 Young Adults Vulnerable to Losing Health Care Access
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/medicaid-cuts-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-leave-3-10-young-adults-vulnerable-losing

+Telling his nephew that disabled people (including the nephew's son) "should just die":
My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son 'Should Just Die'
https://time.com/7002003/donald-trump-disabled-americans-all-in-the-family/

I have very little doubt that Trump would be euthanizing disabled Americans right now, like tbe Nazi that he is at heart, if he thought he could get away with it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. He'd be putting Pol Pot to shame if he could! (n/t)

[ShazzieB]

7. Absolutely!