Administrative agency to oversee Calif. HOAs?
Check out the latest from the California Law Revision Commission, where they are discussing the pros and cons of that very idea. It seems that it would be an agency with regulatory power, like the FCC or OSHA. This type of agency normally has rule-making authority, the ability to investigate alleged violations of those rules and bring charges, and some sort of administrative adjudication power. In other words, the HOA oversight agency would be...sort of like an HOA :-)