Yes, but now that these rules been codified, it's just a short step to requiring you to make changes for "reasonable accomodations" to your existing house before you can sell it.
I mean, after all, if you are selling a house that cannot be immediately occupied by a handi...oops! disabled person then you are effectively practicing descrimination.</sarcasm>
The worry is sincere, but the step is far to big of a stretch. They went through this stuff with Churches years ago and it got put down. It is true that is may affect you selling price, but most houses today are essentially sold 'as is,' even by the builders. To pass such legistation would be to severely risk armed rebellion, so I don't even consider it a remote chance. That doesn't mean someone might not propose it, but you will never see it on that basis.
I mean, after all, if you are selling a house that cannot be immediately occupied by a handi...oops! disabled person then you are effectively practicing descrimination.
The person buying it will just have to deal with it just as they do now with such things as swimming pools etc. The bottom line is that if the whole system does it, the actual cost fades into very minor amounts, and then when granny gets old and you decide to care for her last month of two at home instead of getting squeezed dry of your inheritance faster than grasshoppers in Nevada can clean a wheatfield, you will have the house already prepped so the social workers and Old folks home types can't run you ragged.
If you want to see grown folks cry, ask them about how a parent's $600,000 dollar estate can evaporate far far quicker than their kids can ever grow up. Preparing your home for wheel chair access as well as a railed bathroom might even be a windfall for yourself someday if you ever, God forbid, get hit by a semi on the way home from work. It ain't a bad idea at all, truly.