Banned is maybe too far, but why should we as a country allow people to have petty power over meaningless things their neighbors do? Could we ban HOAs from being included in house sales, and every time it’s sold the new owners have to opt in?
For the most part, I’m wondering about this in the context of single family homes since for homes like condos, you could make the case that HOAs are useful for shared things like roofs and whatnot. Maybe limit mandatory HOA involvement to things like what’s truly necessary and shared and not how tall your grass is?
I think we should just aggressively limit their authority. Essentially saying you can’t make a contract that exceeds our defined limits. If you do, the entire contract is void, not just the parts that cross the line. Let’s put them on eggshells so they don’t lose what little authority we allow them to have. I live in a suburb with no HOA. Really missing city community though.