HOA Rules - Why is it Necessary in Home Buying
A couple of people flagged this recently, from a 2010 on line article in the International Business Times that extols the virtues of HOAs:
"Each homeowners association has covenants, conditions and restrictions or also known as CCR. They are normally related to deed restrictions or restrictive covenants. All things pointed out in the agreement will firmly be imposed to homeowners in order to maintain the property as well as the value of the community. It restricts the building materials to be utilized in constructing homes and the kind of home upgrades allowed. Moreover, they set the allowable number of occupants per house, the kind of pets that are permitted and the race of persons who can stay in the community." [my emphasis]
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In my first book on HOAs I devoted considerable effort to documenting the close connection between HOAs and enforcement of race restrictive covenants from about 1900 to 1950. Whenever industry advocates recount the glorious history of HOAs they jump straight from Athenian Democracy, the "golden hills of Rome" and the New England town meeting to the present, and somehow manage to leave out the fact that for decades in the US, one of the main purposes of HOAs was to keep African-Americans from moving into white neighborhoods.
1 comment:
What the heck?!?
Although race restrictive covenants are no longe enforceable, the CC&Rs are merely go arounds to keep out the "riff-raff" in a new sort of class segregation.
Just come to Florida and take note of all the HOAs available, from $40,000 mobile home parks to mulit-million dollar condos in Miami for all the world's elite billionaires.
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