On a federally assisted property the recipient must make and pay for structural changes needed as an accommodation

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A recipient must modify its housing policies and practices so that they do not discriminate on the basis of disability, and may not impose policies -- such as prohibitions on assistive devices, auxiliary alarms or guides -- that limit the participation of tenants with disabilities. Under Section 504 a structural change needed by an applicant or resident because of a disability is treated as a reasonable ACCOMMODATION, which means the recipient must make it and pay for it, unless doing so would be an undue financial and administrative burden or a fundamental alteration of the programme, or unless the recipient can meet the person's needs by other means such as a transfer to a unit that already has the feature. This is the opposite of the Fair Housing Act allocation, under which the same physical change is a modification at the requester's own expense.

Confidence

high

Effective from

1988-07-11

Last reviewed

2026-08-31