The Privatopia Papers

HOA-loaded areas lead nation's growth From CNN: (see quote from Robert Lang in bold at the end) Arizona town leads nation in populati...

California Appellate Court Rules for HOA in Disclosure Case The Second District Court of Appeals has ruled that an HOA did not have to d...

AP does story on HOAs And if you follow the link to the whole story you will find yours truly quoted... Homeowners following house ru...

Twin Rivers Complaint On Line Courtesy of AHRC The American Homeowners Resource Center has posted on its web site the complaint in the cas...

Un-Neighborly Actions Flag Falls Victim to Tyrants of Taste Commentary By John Stossel (from ABC 20/20 web site) July 4— It...

ABC 20/20 to Broadcast Flagpole Saga Friday, 7/4 From Barbara Walters: "My partner, John Stossel, has a red, white and blue holiday ...

I have received some thoughtful responses to my post on the HOA activist movement. I think conventional political activity--organization, ...

Here's a contribution from Fred Pilot, including an article and his commentary on it, for your consideration. He's pondering the im...

I am increasingly convinced that the trend toward privatization of local government will continue and even accelerate for the forseeable f...

Colorado Supreme Court says HOA can force people to join and tax them Here's a summary of the case, from Patrick Randolph's DIRT-L...

Florida: Alliance forming between HOA activists and a fair housing group This is from the Cyber Citizens for Justice website : "The ...

HOA Oversight Commission for Nevada Becomes Law From the Las Vegas Sun of June 13: --quotation begins here--- Homeowners with complaints...

Watch for Bankrate article on HOAs Bankrate will have an article about homeowner associations sometime in July. Their website gets about...

O'Reilly Irritates the Blogosphere Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is whining about the internet. As usual, it's all about him. ...

So now we hear from Norway: "A homeowner in the southern Norwegian city of Kristiansand is seeing red because his front door is green....

Co-housing is an alternative to developer-created private communities. The people who find it co-housing attractive tend to be white libera...

What is the trend line of privatization? Should we expect the number of private communities, for example, to continue to increase, and for h...

Last night I taught the first class of my summer course on Condo Law (RE 617--Condominiums, Cooperatives, and oOher Forms of Common Ownersh...

Part One: Strange and powerful forces may be stirring again in the state of California. Faced with a $32 billion deficit, a Democratic g...

First post. Just testing.