Comment on The town and HOA only have two settings for a holiday: Jesus and Troops. I guess Labor days is a "Troops" holiday.

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• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Once upon a time, racists would put racial deed restrictions on a house (you could only sell it to another white buyer).

  When that was thrown out, HOAs were a work-around (I’ve been told. Not completely sure how they could just veto a sale to someone with melanin).

  Today, they manage communal property and services (eg landscaping and community pools). The little Hitlers will also put some light fascism in the rules. Some understandable like leaving trash cans out indefinitely. Some less so like exterior paint colors.

  I’m generally not a fan of HOA for single family homes, but I’ve yet to hear of an alternative for multi family buildings (“condos” in most of America). How else do you decide what gets done to communal space?

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not completely sure how they could just veto a sale to someone with melanin.

    They can’t, but they can make sure that melanin is the only visible or auditory difference. Nowadays, most (but not all) racists are okay with brown and black people existing as long as they make a little bit less than white professional peers and exactly match the racists’ understanding of how white people should act.

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• Gaslov@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They exist because trashy disrespectful people exist.

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s exactly why, that and outsourcing unsustainable maintence burden off of the ciry

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Many countries have HoA’s.

  Why America has them is, simply put, racism. HoA’s got started after WW2, specifically to keep non-white people from moving into white neighborhoods.

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• zout@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The Netherlands has them, if a building has multiple apartments there usually is a HOA. I think it used to be a lot like in the US where some bored pensioner decides to ruin everyone else's day, but these days they are more and more run by corporations.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  power-hungry people to be little Hitlers over minutiae

  there’s a high demand for that here

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• zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  China jas HOAs…

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• LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s a whole article about HOAs. Pay especially close attention to the part about common interest developments, that’ll be the reason why HOAs are growing rapidly across the US.

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