VIDEO  ▶ SLIDESHOW  ▶ PDF ALTACITIES today follows The Center for California Homeowner Association Law ,  a clearinghouse of consumer education, training, and referral services for the estimated 9 million California homeowners who now live in over 45,000 common interest development (CID) or HOAs in the state. CCHA is created to serve consumers who live in these localities or are considering purchasing an association home. The CCHA mission is to provide training and support to public interest attorneys, to legal services organizations, to fair housing agencies, and to other nonprofits serving homeowners; to government agencies with jurisdiction over CIDs, and public officials, journalists, and researchers delving into the public policy issues raised by CIDs in their role as quasi-local governments. The focus of the Center is the web of laws and regulations creating the CID legal framework that governs both the lives and the pro...

As a rule, HOAs (homeowner associations) are nothing more than a group of homeowners who live and conduct their lives under a group of CC&Rs, covenants, conditions, and restrictions.  Have you noticed how little news is found in the general press about HOAs?  For the most part, the local, regional, and national press avoids these stories for unknown reasons.  This is true despite the fact that ... The fastest growing form of housing in the United States today is common-interest development (CID), a category that includes planned unit developments of single-family homes, condominiums, and cooperative apartments. Since 1964, HOAs have become increasingly common in the USA. The Community Associations Institute trade association estimated that HOAs governed 24.8 million American homes and 62 million residents in 2010. Flip②▶ STORIFY ♥ FLIPBOARD ★ BLOGGER [ View the story "The H-spot for HOAs" on Storify ] Tweets about HOA homeowners

Flip②▶ STORIFY ♥ Like the estimated 6 million others in California that live in an homeowner's association community (HOA), you are probably among the vast majority who never, or seldom attend an HOA board meeting. This means you don't pay much attention to matters of governance and the legalities of the nonprofit organization that is your HOA.  That is, nothing probably matters in that arena until an issue arises like an unexpected special assessment or a community maintenance issue that seems to be overlooked. Whatever your reason to tune out or tune into these matters, you may now need (or one day need) to go looking for trusted sources of information about #HOALaw , but where do you turn? Our post today kicks off with a video message from a source that is trying to encourage HOA management firms to set up and maintain a presence with blogs and social media.  But will that be the primary source you would use to understand the legalities of your HOA?  Maybe not...