Disability protections mean little if tenants must fight alone to enforce them. After months of delay from a corporate landlord that claimed my accommodation was “approved” but never implemented it, I learned how easily disabled residents can fall through the cracks—sometimes literally.
Disability rights are often described as settled law. Reasonable accommodations are guaranteed. Equal access is required. Retaliation and delay are prohibited.
But for many disabled renters in Orange County, those rights exist mostly on paper—and only work if you are well enough, persistent enough, and resourced enough to fight for them yourself…