HOAs vary a lot. In my city, every new development has one as a condition of getting permits from the city. That’s mainly because cars and their infrastructure are stupidly expensive, the city just can’t afford to maintain it all without raising property taxes. I have friends who live in an HOA neighborhood, and basically they just pay an extra monthly bill to cover snow removal, maintenance of common areas, and such. For them, it’s nothing like the horror stories of HOAs that can take your house if your mailbox is the wrong color. It is just a group providing services that the city can’t afford anymore.
So they aren’t a proto-city like an unassumed municipality, they are like a posto-city where late stage capitalism goes to retire and find a new revenu stream.
HOAs vary a lot. In my city, every new development has one as a condition of getting permits from the city. That’s mainly because cars and their infrastructure are stupidly expensive, the city just can’t afford to maintain it all without raising property taxes. I have friends who live in an HOA neighborhood, and basically they just pay an extra monthly bill to cover snow removal, maintenance of common areas, and such. For them, it’s nothing like the horror stories of HOAs that can take your house if your mailbox is the wrong color. It is just a group providing services that the city can’t afford anymore.
So they aren’t a proto-city like an unassumed municipality, they are like a posto-city where late stage capitalism goes to retire and find a new revenu stream.
Some of them, yeah.
So, instead, everybody gets to pay HOA fees. I guess as long as you don’t call it a ‘tax’ people will go along with it.
kinda funny though in that the city only exists to do that stuff so why not get rid of it and have the county run all the little developer cities.