Latest Legal Updates
Latest Legal Updates
HOA and condominium association legislation, court rulings and regulatory changes across every state, the District of Columbia and federal law — newest first.
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168 of 174 deeds carried the covenant — and the Court of Appeals held it did not reach the other six
In Steele v. SRH, LLC, a published August 2026 decision, neighbours could not use a subdivision-wide no-commercial-use covenant to stop short-term rentals on lots whose chain of title never contained it.
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Georgia's “take over a failed HOA” statute gets its first appellate reading, and it is narrow
O.C.G.A. § 44-5-60(d)(5) lets owners sue individually when an association fails at basic governance. In Boaz v. Thirteen Hundred on Lake Nottely, the owners asked for the wrong remedy and lost.
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MCAD breaks with HUD: Massachusetts boards must still grant emotional support animal requests
HUD narrowed federal assistance animal protection in May 2026. On 31 July 2026 MCAD said that does not modify Massachusetts law, and that denying a request on the federal definition alone may itself violate c. 151B.
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Illinois court: a mobile home sale-interference complaint is a claim, not a rent defence
In Lake Suzanne MHP v. Gavins the Fifth District affirmed eviction where a lot tenant withheld rent alleging the park owner obstructed the sale of her home, holding she never filed a Section 24 claim and used it only as a defence.
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A bill to call condo owners “stakeholders” died one day past the deadline
SB 2433 cleared the Senate 24–0, was narrowed in the House to expand education-fund uses for owners, and its conference committee set a reconvening date one day after the final decking deadline.
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Florida mobile-home associations lost a procedural shortcut — and at Li'l Abner, residents lost the park
The Fourth DCA held that two mobile homeowners' associations cannot combine into a single Rule 1.222 class action. Separately, roughly 200 households were removed from a Sweetwater park after a change-of-use fight.
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Louisiana expanded its Religious Freedom Act in 2025. It does not reach your HOA
Act 358 of 2025 broadened the Preservation of Religious Freedom Act, and it is being cited in disputes over religious displays in community associations. The statute constrains government action; a homeowners association is a private juridical person, and Louisiana has no religious-display statute for associations at all.
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Nothing on Colorado's November ballot touches HOAs — but one measure is worth watching
The Secretary of State certified fourteen statewide measures on September 4, 2026, none on HOAs, CCIOA, condominiums, metro districts or property tax. Amendment 82, a constitutional right to natural gas, is the one with an unresolved association angle.
Read the full updateAn HOA used small-business bankruptcy to reorganise around a homeowner's judgment
The Eleventh Circuit, in a published decision binding on Georgia, upheld a community association's subchapter V designation and its reorganisation plan against the homeowner who had beaten it in state court.
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Two sessions, 4,224 bills, and Iowa still has no HOA act
The 91st General Assembly touched association law once, on records. Chapter 499B has not been amended since 2017, chapter 499A since 2023, and not one bill in either session addressed elections, fines, liens, reserves or dispute resolution.
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Reported: Madison legalises short-term rentals and sets ADU standards — and says nothing about covenants
Madison's new zoning ordinance is reported to add short-term rentals as a staff-approved conditional use across every residential district and to impose detailed accessory-dwelling-unit standards, with no mention of HOAs or private covenants.
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Arizona condos get the $10,000 foreclosure threshold, a year late
SB 1246 lifts the condominium assessment-lien foreclosure trigger from $1,200 or one year to $10,000 or eighteen months, matching a protection planned communities have had since September 2025, and adds a special-assessment carve-out to both statutes.
Read the full updateIllinois can now review homeowners rates — probably not your association's master policy
HB 4273 and SB 714 were signed August 4, 2026 and take effect July 1, 2027, giving IDOI authority to review rate changes and order rebates. The coverage described is homeowners and auto; an association master policy is commercial property.
Read the full updateMassachusetts already had an electronic condo meeting law. The bill to add another was sent to study
H.1522 would have inserted a new c. 183A section 24 authorising remote meetings and electronic voting. That section number was already taken: the Affordable Homes Act enacted it in August 2024.
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The same Kansas ruling handed one parcel back to the developer
Stonegate Motorplaza reversed the district court on Tract B: expandable land never brought into the submitted land was never common area, so the seven-year conversion clock in K.S.A. 58-3115a never applied to it.
Read the full updateSix-figure special assessments are hitting Hawaii's oldest condo owners hardest
Owner advocates report assessments of $20,000 to $100,000-plus pushing seniors to sell, draw down retirement savings or ration medication — and Hawaii law gives a board almost no way to accommodate them.
Read the full updateColorado rowhome owners can now get a court order to step onto a neighbour's lot
SB26-177 creates a district-court action for limited access to adjoining property to make repairs, and its definition of a single-family residence expressly includes a residence in a row joined by common sidewalls.
Read the full updateA Louisiana HOA used bankruptcy to amend covenants 12 votes to 6, against a 66⅔% threshold
A St. Tammany townhouse association in Subchapter V shifted exterior maintenance and insurance onto owners after a ballot in which 18 of 53 units voted. The court found the adjusted voting requirement fair and equitable under 11 U.S.C. §§ 105(a) and 1123(a)(5), citing that section's power to override contrary state law.
Read the full updateA Georgia couple built a pool pavilion without approval and owe $73,000 in fees
In Cotton v. Vinings Estates, the Court of Appeals affirmed $6,475 in fines, $73,000 in fees and an order to demolish — and held a court need not balance the harms before enjoining a covenant violation.
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Indiana still does not license HOA managers
House Bill 1055 of 2025 would have required anyone managing property for a homeowners association to hold a real estate broker licence. It died without a hearing and has no successor.
Read the full updateIllinois co-op's claim to reform a 99-year ground lease survives estoppel certificates
In WP Venture 4 LLC v. Luther Village Owners Corp the First District reversed summary judgment for the landlord, finding disputed facts on when the cooperative should have discovered a drafting mistake inflating ground rent by about 50%.
Read the full updateA postmark, not a spending allegation, froze an Orlando condominium's special assessment
A circuit judge halted collection of a $5,000 to $10,000 per unit assessment after finding the meeting notice was not postmarked 14 days ahead and wrongly stated the assessment was already approved.
Read the full updateHawaii's condo dispute-resolution rewrite died in conference for the second biennium running
HB 1897 would have set mediator and arbitrator qualifications and cut party fees to $150; conferees were seated, a meeting was noticed for April 29, and no report was ever filed.
Read the full updateA Kentucky court read agricultural policy into a covenant — and was reversed for it
Cooper Hart v. Back enforces a residential-use-only covenant against a commercial event venue, and warns that zoning law and contract law were being conflated.
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