HOAs were a result of an environmental rule that said any new subdivision development and this happened around the seventies any new subdivision development had to have a runoff area for rain to run off to into a lower groundwater area. So when the subdivision developers were making these subdivided home plots in their area they would sell all the lots off and sell the houses off and they had this one piece of land that was the runoff area that they still owned but no one would buy because all it was was the big holding area for the runoff for the water so they created HOAs so that the HOA owned that piece of land that developers no longer wanted and then the HOA was responsible for taking care of it perpetually and that let the developer to get out of that system after they had sold all the land off it was sellable.
That is why HOAs were formed from an EPA act in the 1970s that mandated all new developments have a large area of land dedicated to holding water runoff when it rained.
Crackinjokes 2 points 4 hours ago
HOAs were a result of an environmental rule that said any new subdivision development and this happened around the seventies any new subdivision development had to have a runoff area for rain to run off to into a lower groundwater area. So when the subdivision developers were making these subdivided home plots in their area they would sell all the lots off and sell the houses off and they had this one piece of land that was the runoff area that they still owned but no one would buy because all it was was the big holding area for the runoff for the water so they created HOAs so that the HOA owned that piece of land that developers no longer wanted and then the HOA was responsible for taking care of it perpetually and that let the developer to get out of that system after they had sold all the land off it was sellable.
That is why HOAs were formed from an EPA act in the 1970s that mandated all new developments have a large area of land dedicated to holding water runoff when it rained.