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Should HOAs be banned?
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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?
"Right to work" legislation exists in other countries with strong unions.
For example, in Germany you cannot be compelled to join or to leave a union which makes "right to work" the default nationwide. Forcing people to join unions they do not want to be part of violates their freedom of contract. For similar reasons, employers cannot ban employees from talking about their wage, from having relationships or demand they sign "non-compete agreements" . The freedom of contract is constitutionally protected and cannot be waived just like that, even if all parties were to agree.
Yet unions are significantly stronger here than in the US.