Why do you have a problem with this? These people chose to live in an association-run complex, presumably because they figured the benefits outweighed the costs. HOAs are intended to limit behavior that imposes externalities on other properties, as apparently smoking can in multi-unit buildings, and this one chose to restrict it. What’s so bad about that?
“Why do you have a problem with this?”
I never said that I did. I simply stated that the issue was never about health, as was claimed for eons. Instead, it is about control.
“HOAs are intended to limit behavior that imposes externalities on other properties, as apparently smoking can in multi-unit buildings, and this one chose to restrict it.”
Thus proving my point. Have you ever lived in an apartment complex that has a high population of some minority groups where their cooking is extremely pervasive in the entire complex? Would you be just as accepting of HOA rules that prohibit the sale of units to specified minorities?