Next to the drought, California homeowners (not just those who live in common interest developments, of HOAs) universally deal with energy consumption and ways to control energy bills.  Solar is an option for some, but not yet for all. Flip②▶  STORIFY ♥ FLIPBOARD ★ BLOGGER ▲ ALTACITIES ® ▶  WEEBLY See more in the 'social current see' with   3,600+ followers on FLIPBOARD   and the other media links noted above [ View the story "HOA: Solar laws see light of day" on Storify ] "It ain't about how hard you can hit. Its about how hard you can get hit, and... #dailyqotd #qotd http://t.co/fq1zI7UyVq — Mike Foxworth (@ALTALOMAN) August 26, 2015

Apparently, the true champion here may be politician Roland Gutierrez is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives.  He is spearheading an effort to cap legal fees in that state for HOA foreclosures.  Often, these fees are excessive and the tipping point that brings foreclosure, not the actual delinquency of HOA fees. Also see, VIDEOS on topic + Flip②▶ STORIFY ♥ FLIPBOARD ★ BLOGGER   [ View the story "Happy ending for TX HOA foreclosure" on Storify ]

Now two years after initial release, the film HOAX follows an investigative reporter, homeowners, and HOA reform activists as they illustrate shocking evidence of financial and psychological hardships throughout Texas and Nevada. A few of these people, including the filmmaker, are the subject of adverse actions from the very homeowners associations created to help them. Prior to this production, in 2006, Rodney Gray produced and directed the documentary short, A Tenant’s Action , that explored the humiliation and fear of retaliation from landlords, he and other tenants have gone through as a lived experience in Philadelphia, PA. This documentary showed tenants as underdogs, standing up against private and corporate landlords who take their money, bullies them, and at times puts their lives in danger with inadequate maintenance, unsanitary conditions, and fire code violations. This documentary won a Freese Foundational Award at Temple University in 2006. [ View the story "H...