Yes, this is correct. We have deployment workshops where service members are instructed to bring with them a list of all of their creditors, to include HOA, which is not at all uncommon when dealing with our reserve components facing activation. Then, with the help of JAGs, letters are prepared that include the relevant federal laws and the member's deployment orders. This would have been the warning shot across the bow of the HOA association, and DOJ has an office in their civil division that does nothing but sue creditors who violate the SSCRA. The penalties associated with such violations can be staggering, although it virtually never goes that far because the DOJ and the Service Branch puts the fear of the fedgov into these (sometimes) unscrupulous lenders.
Now, it's possible that he had someone who was incompetent leading that workshop. That's probably not likely, as I'm sure he was in what was dozens of workshops prepared by command legal staff.
This adds a lot of very relevant information to what appeared to be a reasonably balanced article. Now, at least to me, it looks to be an article designed to be another reason for their readership to despise the military and the war.
Thanks for the intel, BTW.