Overview The Governor has signed five new laws that change the rules for California HOAs and the homeowners who live in them. Four of them expand homeowners’ rights to build accessory dwelling units (ADUs), overhaul how HOAs must fund their reserves, change the...
Overview Homeowners across California are seeing a massive surge in special assessments and so-called “emergency assessments,” often totaling tens of thousands of dollars per household. Civil Code 5605 bars HOA boards from imposing special assessments that, in the...
Overview California mobile home park homeowners have a law written specifically for them. The Mobilehome Residency Law, found in Civil Code 798 through 799.13, sets out the rights and obligations of homeowners and management in California mobile home parks. Civil Code...
Overview Flock cameras and other generically named automated license plate reader (“ALPR”) cameras give HOAs a searchable record of when every resident, tenant, and guest drives in or out of the community. And yet, California law puts few limits on what HOAs can do...
Overview Plenty of people who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s spent Halloween night in someone else’s neighborhood. Parents loaded kids into the car and drove them across town to the “rich neighborhoods,” where homeowners handed out the good candy,...
