A federal District Court in Louisiana has ruled that a six-person group home for individuals recovering from drug or alcohol addiction is entitled to a reasonable accommodation under the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act and should not be required to install automatic sprinklers and fire alarm systems required by the State Fire Marshal for rooming houses. It has ruled that Oxford House, Inc., a nonprofit providing organizational support for group homes across the country, had satisfactorily shown that interpreting the situation as a single family home “would capture the type of relationship shared among the residents,” and would not increase the potential danger...