For larger HOAs, this could mean huge plumbing and landscaping expenses to water green belts or other common areas, which are deemed “nonfunctional.”

Source: https://www.dailynews.com/2023/05/05/hoa-homefront-how-4-pending-bills-would-badly-affect-hoas/

HOAs are not communist but are neighbors who by buying into the HOA band together for their common benefit.

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-09-02/sd-fi-hoa-homefront-reader-questions-are-hoas-communist

HOAs can be so petty.

Source: https://www.queerty.com/couple-stands-ground-pride-flag-vandalized-hoa-demanded-take-20230119?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=couple-stands-ground-pride-flag-vandalized-hoa-demanded-take

However, many HOAs continued to meet purely virtually without establishing the physical location required by Civil Code 4090(b), with the excuse that the State still had a declared health emergency regarding Covid-19.

Source: https://www.pressenterprise.com/2023/09/01/hoa-homefront-can-meetings-be-purely-virtual/