I keep trying to radicalize my HOA-laden friends to get some folks together and take over the boards in order to institute rules which would promote biodiversity, rather than sterile carbon copy neighborhoods.
Instead of fines for letting plants grow above certain heights, set ones for not having enough plants. Since that’s punitive and financially unavailable for some people, submit grant proposals and partnerships to have funding for additional plantings to support various threatened species or ecosystems as appropriate.
Is it possible to have a hoa coup? I think that would be interesting… Tiny revolutions within hoa’s. So small no one cares. Eventually everything is clean, green and healthy before anyone notices. Kind of like when eBay changed its background slowly from yellowish to white.
Lol
My understanding is that many of them have charters which have elected board positions, though there are some which are privately owned communities in which that is not the case. Those board meetings and elections tend to face the same engagement and participation challenges as municipal meetings and elections among the age groups best positioned/inclined to make the changes.
Armchair quarterback opinion, since I don’t have personal adult experience living in one, but I think it might be doable running with a “remove bs fees” position coupled with “remove petty board members” based on conversations with friends and internet strangers.
One thing that is not talked enough, and in fact it’s not discussed in this blog post also, it’s the need of staying away from parents for some time or more. Villages are just doomed to be abandoned by anyone who wants to explore any facets of society that need high density of population to be developed…
At this point is probably easier to just reclaim cities imo, aiming for the smaller ones
I’ve never heard of an ecovillage, but just from context it sounds interesting. I’ve been drafting a bill to submit to my state legislature, and my emphasis has been on non-market housing and housing cooperatives. Basically housing cooperatives are collectively owned apartments, where all the tenants are the collective owners and elect a governing body. There is no profit on residency dues either, making it cheaper
