My eviction was because of a refused accommodation.

Then it is worth explaining, with the documentation. A provider is not obliged to overlook it, and an explained record is considerably better than an unexplained one.

Credit, past evictions and accommodation requests

AnswersLast reviewed Sep 15, 2026

An accommodation is about the animal, not about the application.

They are separate questions

A provider may apply ordinary financial criteria: income, credit, rental history, references. A reasonable accommodation relating to an animal does not exempt you from any of it, and a provider declining on credit is not refusing the accommodation.

Where an accommodation can touch screening

Where the criterion itself screens out people with disabilities without justification, which is a different and much harder argument.
Where an eviction or a debt arose directly from a previously refused accommodation, which is worth explaining with the record attached.
Where a provider will consider a different form of assurance, such as a guarantor, which many will if asked.

What does not work is presenting an accommodation request as an answer to a credit problem. It invites the suspicion that the request is tactical, and it makes an otherwise good accommodation request harder to take seriously.

Screening reports

If you are declined on a tenant screening report you are entitled to an adverse action notice naming the agency, and to see and dispute the report. Errors in these are common, and that is a more productive route than the accommodation argument.

Common questions

My eviction was because of a refused accommodation.: Then it is worth explaining, with the documentation. A provider is not obliged to overlook it, and an explained record is considerably better than an unexplained one.