Camden Welcomes Cats and Dogs and Sets Its Pet Rules Community by Community

Camden's own pages give different pet counts: its Cedar Hills page in Austin says up to two pets per apartment home with no weight limit, and a 2021 blog post says most communities accept up to three. Neither page mentions assistance animals. ESA Card has no connection to Camden: its registration is the ID card you carry beside your provider's letter.

Camden publishes no single pet policy page that we found. We read two of its pages: the Camden Cedar Hills Townhomes community page in Austin, which carries no date beyond a 2026 copyright line, and a Camden blog post on pet-friendly living dated April 27, 2021. Everything below about Camden comes from them, read on November 5, 2026, with its quotes exact.

What is Camden's pet policy?

Camden Cedar Hills says it welcomes cats and dogs, up to two pets per apartment home with no weight limit, and the 2021 blog post says most Camden communities accept up to three. The Cedar Hills page reads "we welcome cats and dogs, up to two pets per apartment home with no weight limit." The blog post reads "most Camden communities accept up to three pets per apartment." The two differ, so the count that applies to you is the one your community gives.

Does Camden allow emotional support animals?

Neither of the Camden pages we read mentions emotional support animals or assistance animals, so Camden's answer has to come from the community you are applying to. The pages' counts and breed lists are written for pets, so the questions below go to the community in writing:

What does Camden charge for pets?

Neither Camden page we read gives a pet fee, deposit or monthly rent amount. Ask the community for the figures in writing, and ask which of them, if any, apply to an assistance animal. HUD's own statement on fees is below.

How do you ask Camden for an emotional support animal?

Camden publishes no request process on the pages we read, so the request starts with a written message to the community's leasing office. Five steps keep it clean:

1. Contact the community's leasing office before the animal moves in.
2. Ask for its assistance animal request process and any form it uses.
3. Put your request in writing and keep a copy of everything you send.
4. Give a letter from your provider when the community asks for documentation.
5. Ask in writing whether any pet charge applies, and keep the answer.

What do HUD's own documents say about an emotional support animal at a Camden community?

The Fair Housing Act covers Camden like any other landlord, and HUD's own statement says a housing provider may ask for reliable proof of the disability and the need, but may not charge extra fees or deposits for an accommodation. HUD and the Justice Department's joint statement on reasonable accommodations, dated May 17, 2004 and still on hud.gov when we read it, says a provider "may request reliable disability-related information" when a disability is not obvious, and that "housing providers may not require persons with disabilities to pay extra fees or deposits as a condition of receiving a reasonable accommodation." It adds that a tenant can still be billed for damage the animal causes. The Camden pages we read give no fee amounts and do not say whether any charge applies to an assistance animal.

HUD has since changed how it enforces this. It withdrew its 2013 and 2020 assistance animal notices, effective September 17, 2025, and since May 22, 2026 its fair housing office pursues an animal complaint only when the animal is trained to do disability-related work or tasks (HUD's enforcement memo). The Fair Housing Act itself, your right to go to court and state laws did not change, and a 2025 federal decision attached to the memo found that waiving one $400 animal fee was not required on its facts, so fees are decided case by case. Our page on HUD's emotional support animal rules has the documents, and our guide to pet deposits, pet rent and fees for an ESA has the cases.

What should an ESA letter include when you give it to Camden?

A letter from a licensed provider who evaluated you and can be reached, on letterhead with their license number and a signature, gives a leasing team something it can check. Our free sample ESA letter shows each part, and our guide to who can write an ESA letter covers which licenses count. The quickest route is a therapist, psychiatrist or doctor who already treats you, because they know you and can confirm the letter if Camden calls. The Camden pages we read do not list the documents it asks for, so ask the community what it needs to see. The checks anyone can run on a letter are in how to verify an ESA letter.

No provider of your own? In Florida, New Jersey and New York we can book you a live video evaluation with an independent therapist licensed in your state: $120, with $80 back if they can't approve you, and the therapist alone decides on the letter. You can book in Florida, book in New Jersey or book in New York.

Other managers publish different rules. Our guides to Equity Residential, Cortland and Essex read each company's own pages the same way, our study of what 16 large landlords publish about emotional support animals counts all sixteen, and our guide to how PetScreening reviews an ESA request covers the screening service many properties use.

Alongside the letter, ESA Card registration gives your animal a digital ESA Card with its photo, a certificate and a number anyone can check at esacard.com/verify, for $39$59$79$99 once, in about three minutes. It is handy for the everyday questions; the letter from your provider is the document a housing provider can ask for.