• grue@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Local governments encouraging them in order to shirk their responsibilities (e.g. they don’t have to maintain the street if it’s private), as @HubertManne mentioned, is also recently a thing.

      Still, those reasons are both very new, and thus don’t apply to the vast majority of HOAs.