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This should be a national law.
They should be abolished by national law for SFHs. They are nothing more than private, unaccountable governments that allow those with more leisure time to exercise petty power over others.
For real. There's an avenue for HOAs to be useful and good, allowing a community to self govern itself a bit and provide its community with services like community gardens, small parks (like really small. Like a playground), and maybe a space or two for people in the community to have something like a farmers market where they sell things they've grown or made. Mostly though HOAs tell you you put your trash bin in the wrong place, your grass is too long, and you can't line dry your cloths, all those things will lower the property value in the neighborhood
That's what local government is for. HOAs are petty despotisms that get paid to deliver nothing of value and empower small-scale socipaths.
The law should make it easy to get rid of HOAs and hard to form new ones.
I agree and disagree at the same time. Local governments give us bullshit cops who beat up people who don't look the right way, and they give leniency to corporations who take advantage of us. We need something with traits of both without traits from either. We need overall societal restructuring
That's a problem with poorly-functioning, non-representative governments, not governments altogether (not saying that they'd be necessary in an ideal world but we're nowhere close to ideal). Having a private government structure, that is not accountable to the public is not beneficial. The only reason that HOAs don't have worse cops is that they can't afford them with the smaller tax base.
The big problem I see is any organization without adequate accountability
Making it easy to disband HOAs should be national law. So should preventing local zoning ordinances from banning wind power and rooftop solar.
Low-water yards too.