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This law is intended to make it easier to find pet-friendly housing by making it illegal for landlords to limit the breed and/or size of pets that can live in their properties. It will have the opposite effect as landlords adopt blanket "no pets" policies.

While I sympathize with the intentions here, it seems obvious to me that if allowing pets at all means landlords have to allow someone to have a 150+ pound English Mastiff in their studio apartment (with strict limits on pet deposits and pet rent) then landlords are just going to ban pets entirely.

I have complicated feelings about no weight limits bc the larger the dog the deeper the claw gouges etc. I say this as a large and small dog owner. You’ll find big dogs that are gentle, but give one who’s not 5 min and that’s a $ refinish of the floor and you can only do so many times w/o replacing.