HOA officers and board members should be given the option of abdication or guillotine.
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HOAs still place restrictions unfortunately. Perhaps not an outright ban in most places, but limited installations and possibly in not the best place on the house for solar production.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 11 months ago
bappity@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HOAs existing should be illegal
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
They make sense in communities with shared facilities (pool, playgrounds, walls, roofs, or whatever) and common areas so that everyone helps maintain things. The list of what they get away with should be really, super limited though.
bappity@lemmy.world 11 months ago
in concept they make sense but 99.999999% of the time people use it as a way to power trip
bappity@lemmy.world 11 months ago
it’s like what happened with communism
seems like it’d work in concept but the people fuck it up
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
What a strange take, how do you organize or run the community without it? Everyone just does whatever without any coordination or some other type of model?
Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
You can have municipal regulations and be free to decide what to do with your own property aside from that. Most of the world does it and things work just fine, with the added benefit of no HOA troubles.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Municipal regulations affecting very small level stuff like that might become a huge clusterfuck. In Finland HOA type stuff is usually seen as good because it gives the option for people to decide stuff about their own immediate area or even just their own apartment building (so more local democracy) and it’s easier to organize a lot of stuff closer to people.