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Texas bans homeowners’ associations from discriminating against renters who receive federal housing aid
(www.texastribune.org)
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Can we just have home owners associations banned altogether?
Based.
My wife and I went out of our way to buy a non-HOA house, cause fuck’em its my property.
They are valuable in shared community situations, such as townhouse communities (wherein one home abutts another) and condos. In these situations, there are shared elements which need to be funded and enforced somehow (would you want to live in a townhouse where your neighbor has rats? Would you want to live in a condo with no funding to maintain the building?).
I'd be pretty okay with banning them outside of those sorts of circumstances.
We have condo boards in Canada. I think HOAs have way more power than condo boards.
They definitely do. HOAs can literally foreclose on people's homes even if they're just a few hundred dollars behind in their payments.
https://www.cedarmanagementgroup.com/hoa-foreclosure/
Seems like a fairly convenient political punching bag if you want to score some easy wins. I feel like it's underutilized. Both parties (in the us where HoAs are actually common) could use this strategy pretty easily.