As of the end of 2020 the number of common interested developments (CIDs) in the United States was estimated to be 355K. 35%-40% are condominiums. 58%-63% planned developments, 2%-4% real estate cooperatives. (CAI-2020-2021 Statistical Review) Forty Years of Growth In 2000 the number was estimated to be 222,500. By the end of 2010 the number…
Fifty years ago, the term “homeowner association” or HOA for short, was relatively unknown in the United States. Various sources have estimated that the total number of HOAs in the U.S. as of 1963 was perhaps no more than five hundred. Other than a handful of large, established planned developments such as Rancho Santa Fe…
In the first installment we examined the evolution of the common interest development movement beginning with the publication of Ebenezer Howard’s 1902 book Garden Cities of To-morrow, which was a revised edition of Howard’s 1898 publication To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Reform. Fast forward sixty years to 1962, there were perhaps 500 HOAs were scattered…