California Civil Rights Department, Housing Discrimination

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California Civil Rights Department, Housing Discrimination
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An emotional support animal (ESA) is an animal that provides emotional, cognitive, or other similar support to a person with a disability to assist them in managing the symptoms of their disability. ESAs are also referred to as comfort animals or support animals. A service animal refers to an animal trained to perform specific tasks to assist an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. For example, guide dogs are service animals that assist people who are blind or have low vision with navigation, and signal dogs are service animals that alert individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to sounds. An ESA is not a service animal because the ESA is not specifically trained to assist a person with a disability.

For more information, please see CRD’s Emotional Support Animals and Fair Housing Law factsheet

Did Assembly Bill 468 change California fair housing law regarding ESAs?