The Privatopia Papers

Ira Hansen, a far-right Nevada state legislator, has introduced a bill through his control of the judiciary committee that would repeal all ...

HOA boards take heed. You will allow your inmates to let their lawns turn brown. You will allow lawns to be turned into drought resistant la...

Drones present opportunity, challenge for community associations - Chicago Tribune Drones in the hands of condo and HOA boards?  What co...

This is how capitalism works.  Corporations make profits and get to keep them.   Corporations generate huge "externalities," meani...

No, really.  It's true.  Having solved all other problems, this HOA has decided to prevent children from playing.  Why would anybody, wi...

This Vox article references a number of studies that suggest the answer may be "yes." http://www.vox.com/2015/3/26/8291889/subu...

London?  Dubai?  The new cities in the US that are comprised of private, gated communities? " The word “private” is derived from the ...

Thanks to a helpful correspondent for flagging this.  Since the late 1970s cities have been trying to find ways to compensate for lost reven...

" The Rotunda,  a condominium building in Tyson's Corner, Virginia has implemented a policy in which all new pet owners who are mov...

The Garden City movement was the inspiration for common interest housing. Ebenezer Howard, a 19th century utopian thinker, wanted to build n...

Colorado Lawmakers Debate Construction Defects Bill  CBS Denver --------- The quest for the waterproof condo continues. Hint: solutions a...

4 found guilty in Las Vegas homeowner association fraud trial - www.ktnv.com : LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A federal jury found a Las Vegas lawyer and...

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 B...

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/welcome-libertarian-island-inside-frightening-economic-dreams-silicon-valleys "...there is ...

http://www.blufftontoday.com/bluffton-news/2015-03-15/sc-grapples-homeowner-association-complaints#.VQeEs2yCOrW "COLUMBIA — Neighborh...

Police say naked man standing in doorway is not breaking law, ne - wistv.com - Columbia, South Carolina : This week, neighbors were able to ...

Since the early 1980s, this country has been in the grip of the ideology of privatism, which is the moral conviction that anything "pri...

The trial judge prevented a Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter from asking a defense attorney who the justice was...but six of the seven hav...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/nevada-justice-warned-hoa-conspirators-police-raids-witness-says I've been wondering why t...

Nevada justice warned HOA conspirators of police raids, witness says | Las Vegas Review-Journal : A witness in the trial of four defendants ...