Feb. 20, 2026
HOA laws on affordable housing may price out compliant owners
Legislation intended to promote affordable housing by limiting community associations' enforcement, collection, and maintenance powers often backfires, forcing compliant homeowners to subsidize non-compliant neighbors, shoulder higher costs and face greater safety and insurance risks.
Affordable housing has become a hot topic in Western state
legislatures, but recent legislation targeting community associations may be
creating unintended consequences that make housing less affordable for the very
people it claims to protect--the compliant homeowners already living in these
communities.
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