I live in my RV full time. Am I protected?

If the pitch is your residence under a long-term agreement, the better argument is that it is a dwelling and the duty applies.

Emotional support animals in RV parks

Housing situationsLast reviewed Sep 15, 2026

Whether the Act reaches your pitch depends on whether you live there or are passing through.

Residence or recreation

A park hosting holidaymakers for a week is closer to a campground, and the Fair Housing Act is unlikely to reach it. A park where people live year-round on monthly agreements is providing dwellings, and it is. Many parks do both, and the answer depends on which arrangement you are in rather than on what the park calls itself.

Factors that point toward a dwelling

A monthly or annual agreement rather than a nightly booking.
It being your only residence, and your registered address.
Utilities billed to you, and a mailing address at the pitch.
Long tenure, and rules that read like a tenancy rather than a booking.

What comes up in practice

Breed and number rules are common and are pet policies a granted accommodation excepts. Rules about animals being unattended on a pitch, leashed in common areas, and not left in a vehicle in heat are ordinary conduct rules and generally stand. Some states have specific statutes for recreational vehicle parks that sit alongside landlord-tenant law.

Where the park is genuinely recreational rather than residential, the useful route is asking rather than asserting. Most park operators have wide discretion and use it.

The 30-day shuffle

Some parks require residents to move pitch or leave for a night periodically, specifically so that nobody establishes tenancy rights. That practice is aimed at landlord-tenant law rather than at you, and it is evidence in both directions: it shows the park treating the arrangement as non-residential, and it shows the park knows people are living there.

Practical advice

Keep your agreement, the rate structure and anything showing the pitch as your address.
Ask before arriving. Park operators have wide discretion and most will simply say yes to a described animal.
Expect leash and unattended-animal rules to be enforced, because in a park they are about other residents rather than about you.
Check whether your state has a recreational vehicle park statute, which several do and which sits alongside landlord-tenant law.

Common questions

I live in my RV full time. Am I protected?: If the pitch is your residence under a long-term agreement, the better argument is that it is a dwelling and the duty applies.