The Privatopia Papers

Evan McKenzie on the rise of private urban governance and the law of homeowner and condominium associations. Contact me at ecmlaw@gmail.com


Saturday, April 09, 2011

HOA goes after woman's garage as 'community center'

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A Tierrasanta homeowners association is cracking down on a 70-year-old woman whose garage has become a neighborhood gathering place of sor...
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HOA foreclosures come with price tag in troubled real estate market

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As for the Leiders' former Brier Creek home, while the HOA foreclosed on them back in 2009, two years later the HOA still has the deed...
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Homebuilder Pasquinelli files for bankruptcy

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"The bankruptcy petition is a dramatic turn of events for Pasquinelli, which started building homes in the Chicago market in 1956, and ...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

CCHAL announces progress on SB 561

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Evan -- please post news of our victory in California's Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. SB561 is legislation that protects both h...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

To save houses from HOA foreclosure, bill would offer up what's inside

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This is like the old saying about a litigant being somebody who gives up his skin in the hope of saving his bones.
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Monday, April 04, 2011

Home Owner Associations Growing In Power While With Little Oversight Or Transparency | FortBendNow.com

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Home Owner Associations Growing In Power While With Little Oversight Or Transparency | FortBendNow.com : Thanks to Fred Fischer for sending ...
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Senator wrote HOA bills while working for HOA - Sunday, April 3, 2011 | 2:01 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

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Senator wrote HOA bills while working for HOA - Sunday, April 3, 2011 | 2:01 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun : "Carson City — Sen. Allison Copenin...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

Empty houses taking toll on Valley

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On a typical block in metro Phoenix, there's at least one empty home, often several. Overbuilding during the housing boom, record forecl...

Feathers fly

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  Feathers fly Saturday as Sacramento celebrates International Pillow Fight Day at Fremont Park. From Topeka, Kan., to Tunis, Tunisia, cit...
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HOA Wants To Ban Kids From Playing Outside - News Story - WFTV Orlando

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HOA Wants To Ban Kids From Playing Outside - News Story - WFTV Orlando : VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A neighborhood homeowner's association ...
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Saturday, April 02, 2011

Las Vegas judge blocks foreclosure by HOA collection agency

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Nevada Association Services (NAS) is at the center of legal and political battles over how much homeowners -- and investors in foreclosed ho...

Citation over front yard toilet planter dismissed

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Flush with success, Terry told the Knoxville News Sentinel he might celebrate by flanking his driveway with two more commodes. ------------...

Testy in Texas over HOAs

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Calling associations “at least quasigovernmental,” Rep. Dwayne Bohac, R-Houston, said that “the scales are still tilted to HOA protections.”...
Friday, April 01, 2011

7 reasons why the mortgage crisis is dragging down the entire economy

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Some dramatic charts that put the magnitude of this thing in perspective.
Thursday, March 31, 2011

HOA tears down lost doggy signs

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PHOENIX -- An adventurous Yorkshire terrier took off Tuesday morning, sending panic through the Malley family of Cave Creek. They frantical...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

America's Foreclosure Ghost Towns

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Huffington Post is asking for people to submit photos of the foreclosure crisis.

Kids' lemonade stand curtailed by their homeowners association

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HOAs: the only institution in our society that makes its own "Kick Me!" sign and ties it around its own neck, week after week.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

A Boom Behind Bars: Private jail operators like the Corrections Corporation of America are making millions off the crackdown on illegal aliens

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The private prison system runs parallel to the U.S. prisons and currently accounts for nearly 10 percent of U.S. state and federal inmates, ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Lips Unsealed: Third Circuit Ruling on Privilege Worries Defense Bar

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Lips Unsealed: Third Circuit Ruling on Privilege Worries Defense Bar : "Corporate executives may need to be more careful about what th...

Some residents not embracing roundabouts: Communities seeking safer intersections find resistance from those unfamiliar with the circular roadways

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"I've never been on one in America," said Alice Zator, whose business sits at the planned roundabout site on Oak Park Avenue a...
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I am a professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Nothing contained in this blog represents the opinions of UIC or John Marshall, and nothing you see here is legal advice. You can reach me at ecmlaw@gmail.com
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