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The other side of the coin… and this is going to come across as excessively negative but it cost our scheme a lot of money and put the residents through 18 months of hell, hounded one elderly resident so much that we all genuinely believe the stress contributed to her death and delayed essential maintenance works for the scheme…
A number of years back we had someone move into our scheme “temporarily” who claimed to have allergys to perfumes and other chemicals and had found a quack to declare it as a disability. Being the kind trusting people we were we said no problem we’ll delay the works 6 months.
Well 6 months was the first lie. Turned out even the alergy was a lie as the resident in question was caught out on camera doing things that didn’t align with the allergy. But because it was a “disability” we were threatened with disability discrimination every time we said or did anything.
In the end she did raise a disability discrimination complaint against the scheme and luckily we found a good lawyer who got her to admit to more lies in mediation.
The general outcome from a legal perspective was that majority rules. It is unreasonable to expect everyone to live as though they have an allergy because one person chose to live in a location that was generally unsuitable for them.
It’s unfortunately harsh but its the reality of the situation.
The only thing the OP can actually do is find somewhere more suitable to live. Yeah it sucks particularly if your allergy is genuine and not a scam like our troublemaker.
In high density areas though, the situation is only going to intensify for the OP.
People use their balconies because driers are expensive to run and because common drying areas are great for getting your clothes stolen or damaged.