[Terry L Smith]

HOA’s, first invented by both Soviet Russia and Communist China, as means of a village government writing their own rules.

This is not acceptable, if an individual is to be sovereign over what house he chooses to acquire, according to the Constitution.

[Alberta's Child]

HOAs are totally voluntary arrangements. If you don’t like the rules, don’t buy a home in one of them.

I’m in the process of looking for a home right now, and I’ve made an interesting observation: In general I do not want to live in an HOA, but in a couple of particular areas I wouldn’t buy a home WITHOUT one. That’s because many of the non-HOA homes in these areas are shabby, unkept, and make the whole neighborhood downright unappealing even if I live in a beautiful home next door.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I understand what you’re saying, but you also have to let sovereign people form the kind of relationships they want. The Constitution had to do all kinds of hand-waving to allow for the human slavery that was being practiced at the time.

I think people who join HOAs are wimps. They want a collectivist security that is largely unreal and invites the abuses the author alludes to. But, it is their sovereign choice to join such an arrangement.