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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.

Lee Freedman

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VF Law

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Damien Bielli

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HOA laws on affordable housing may price out compliant owners
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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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