Lately we’ve been seeing condominiums on the market in San Francisco contain HOA docs that bar dogs within a condominium building. What would that mean for us and Raffi if we had to move into a building with these prohibitions? Lucky for us Raffi has his service dog tags and designation. But it turns out bans on fido are, well, banned in California:

No Flat Prohibitions In 1994, the California Supreme Court upheld the validity of a CC&R restriction that broadly prohibited homeowners from having pets in their units. (See Nahrstedt v. Lakeside Village (1994) 8 Cal.4th 361.) Several years after that decision, the California Legislature enacted Civil Code Section 1360.5 (now Civil Code Section 4715) to afford …

Source: Pet Restrictions | FindHOALaw