Homeowner Resource Websites
Lone Star Legal Aid provides free legal advice and representation to eligible clients in non-criminal cases across SE Texas. If you need legal help in a non-criminal legal matter—or even if you just have a question or want general legal information—you have to apply. Once Lone Star Legal Aid verifies that you are eligible, they will provide the assistance that they can.
Since the 1987 Texas Supreme Court decision in Inwood North vs. Harris and the 1995 passage of Texas Property Code Chapter 204, Homeowners Associations (HOAs) have filed thousands of legal actions against homeowners in the Houston area, generally with threat of foreclosure, causing many to lose their homes and causing others financial hardship.
This website summarizes a research database of over 25,000 court filings by HOAs in the Houston area (mainly Harris County) from 1985 through 2007.
In response to a proposal to transform her decades-old civic association from a voluntary dues association to an HOA, Beanie Adolph began to study HOAs. She soon discovered that the Texas Legislature had recently empowered HOAs in Harris County (but not elsewhere in Texas) to assess mandatory dues and fines, and that many Harris County HOAs were abusing their powers, especially by filing for foreclosure of homes over trivial fees.
At this same time, the celebrated case of Wenonah Blevins (a widow evicted from her home over a pittance) and a few other HOA cases were in the news. In each case, the HOAs played down the foreclosure problem and the accompanying adverse publicity by claiming that foreclosure cases were rare. Beanie realized that what was lacking was any documentation to determine whether the HOA claim was true or false.
From court records, the Adolph family compiled extensive evidence. The complete, electronic database was formally analyzed and the results available on the site.
On The Commons is a weekly radio show, dedicated to discussing the many issues surrounding mandatory membership common ownership developments. It is broadcast live from WEBR, Fairfax, Virginia and available on the web site.
Cyber Citizens for Justice (FL)
Cyber Citizens for Justice is Florida's largest state-wide property owners' advocacy organization.
Citizens for Constitutional Local Government (AZ)
CCLG is a nonprofit organization formed to provide full and material disclosure of all the factors that can have profound effects on your decision to buy into an HOA controlled property. We believe that the regulation of planned communities must be under local government statutes to provide for the constitutional protection of homeowner rights.
American Homeowner Resource Center (CA)
The primary driving force behind the American Homeowners Resource Center (AHRC) is a national and international grassroots network of homeowners working together to protect homes.
Center for California Homeowner Association Law Center
The Center for California Homeowner Association Law is a clearinghouse of consumer education, training, and referral services for the estimated 9 million California homeowners, who now live in a common interest development (CID) and for consumers who are considering purchasing an association home.
The purpose of this website is awaken a sleeping public to a plague that is threatening to destroy the American dream of homeownership and undermine the common democratic principals so many have fought to preserve for over 200 years. This menace is the corporate, private government known as the Homeowners Association.
MacKenzie is a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who studies and writes about the rise of common interest developments.
Evan MacKenzie's blog about the rise of private urban governance and the law of homeowner and condominium associations.
Neighborhood Homeowner Advocate Groups
Our mission is to create Home Owner Association transparency and accountability that serves homeowners, both collectively and individually, through making information available to homeowners that is not dependent on contractor advertising. This information will inform homeowners of current HOA and CAI "patterns" that often destroy individual property rights,*diminish home equity values, jeopardize community values, marginalize and retaliate against individuals who speak to improving their community by exposing existing HOA and CAI patterns of abuse.
Prestonwood Forest Homeowners Organization
Our mission is to monitor and report actions and decisions of the Prestonwood Forest Maintenance Association Board of Directors, in order to maintain and promote a community of united individuals residing in Prestonwood Forest, where everyone may exercise their freedom of speech without fear of intimidation or retaliation, and where the Association's elected Board of Directors operates in a transparent manner, respectful of their electorate, and within the limits of the authority delegated to them.
Free 2016 Main (Houston)
2016 Main homeowners fight to protect their property.
Sherrill Park HOA (Richardson)
Purpose - to provide a site where Sherrill Park homeowners can exchange iinformation and ideas.
Ledges of Hidden Hills, The (NC)
This site documents an assault on the most fundamental right from which all other liberties flow - the right to property - by a so-called "private government."
Tone Ranch residents fight to stop HOA harassment.
Purpose - to act as the eyes, ears and voice of the residents of Sky Harbor.
Other Homeowner Resources (Not HOA)
Homeowners for Better Building (HOBB)
Purpose - to unite homeowners to protect the family dreams of today and tomorrow.