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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Idaho Court of Appeals: a 1979 "no commercial enterprises" clause does not bar Airbnb
Delano v. Pike affirms that a Bonner County covenant banning commercial enterprises but permitting "private renting" does not reach platform-based short-term rentals, and awards the owners fees for the oral argument.
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Alaska opens wrap-up insurance to large condo and townhouse projects
SB 132 extended owner- and contractor-controlled insurance programs to multi-owner residential construction of at least 40 units and $20 million, a change aimed squarely at condominium development.
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Delaware Chancery reinstates $33,810 in condo fines and narrows who owes fiduciary duties
Vice Chancellor Bonnie W. David held that DUCIOA requires no written fine policy, that the association entity itself owes no fiduciary duty, and that a board cannot vote itself a fee-shifting rule.
Read the full updateIdaho Supreme Court: a rental ban never attaches without the owner's written consent
North Henry's Lake Homeowners Association v. Norton reads Idaho Code § 55-3211 to exempt the property rather than the objecting owner, leaving a 2016 short-term-rental restriction unenforceable against three successive buyers.
Read the full updateIdaho HB 963 would have converted HOAs into common-property-only entities — it died in six days
Introduced 27 March 2026 and dead at sine die, the bill paired a full governance rewrite of § 55-3204 with automatic conversion to a "joint ownership association" that could not regulate aesthetics or land use.
Read the full updateDelaware just made its manufactured-home rent formula permanent
SB 235 repealed the July 1, 2027 sunset on the CPI-U-based rent-increase calculations at §§ 7052A and 7052B. If any source says Delaware's rent justification rules expire in 2027, that is now wrong.
Read the full updateIdaho HB 708 would have dissolved every HOA over ten years old — it died without a hearing
The bill would have added Idaho Code § 55-3204C, dissolving any association ten years old on 1 July 2029 unless a majority of eligible voters voted against it. It never left House Business.
Read the full updateAlaska Supreme Court vacates $72,800 HOA fee award over unsegregated billing
In Guditz v. Lakeside North, the court held the association bore the burden of separating fees from the foreclosure case it lost from the countersuit it won — and that attorney affidavits did not carry it.
Read the full updateAlaska's condo lender now asks for a reserve study — the state still doesn't
AHFC's revised Common Interest Communities Project Guide adds a reserve-study section and a three-to-five-year update expectation, filling a gap Alaska statute leaves open.
Read the full updateDelaware's lot-rent ceiling is 5.678% — and the state got the math wrong in March
A Delaware State Housing Authority CPI-U calculation error, caught by a community owner's attorney, changed the index from 3.315% to 3.330% and forced corrected rent-increase certifications.
Read the full updateAnchorage now allows short-term rentals in every residential zone — covenants are untouched
AO 2025-115(S-2) legalized short-term rentals citywide and requires registration, but the ordinance never mentions covenants or associations — leaving the private restriction exactly where it was.
Read the full updateDelaware now presumes an ATV on your community's private roads is unauthorized
HB 471, effective July 23, 2026, flips the burden on off-highway vehicles on shared private roadways — with $100 and $1,000 penalties, impoundment, and an express carve-out for golf carts.
Read the full updateIdaho's 2026 ADU act left a fee-shifting statute pointing at a deleted definition
Section 55-618 still voids covenants against an "internal accessory dwelling unit, as defined in section 55-3212" — but Chapter 265 removed that definition from § 55-3212 on 1 July 2026.
Read the full updateIdaho SB 1277 would have gone much further on ADUs — it died without a hearing
Two ADUs on larger lots, counties and utility districts covered, a private right of action against non-compliant jurisdictions, and covenants void rather than merely unenforceable. It never left committee.
Read the full updateIdaho HB 647 would have voided manufactured-home covenants — the siting half passed without it
The bill's proposed Idaho Code § 55-619 would have made such covenants void as against public policy with fee-shifting attached. It died in House Business while HB 800 carried the zoning provisions to enactment.
Read the full updateDelaware's post-Surfside condo bill died six days after it was filed
SB 352 would have mandated façade and structural inspections, 30-year reserve projections, and given the DOJ power to enforce DUCIOA. It was introduced June 24, 2026 and never got a committee report.
Read the full updateAlaska bill giving mobile home residents first crack at buying their park died without a hearing
HB 230 would have required 90 days' notice before a park sale, given residents a matching-offer right, and capped lot rent increases at 5% a year. It never received a single hearing.
Read the full updateIdaho HB 800 opens single-family zones to manufactured homes — but not HOA covenants
Chapter 171 rewrote the siting rules in Idaho Code § 67-6509A effective 1 July 2026, and left in place the sentence providing that the section does not abrogate a recorded restrictive covenant.
Read the full updateIdaho HB 583 strips city short-term-rental permits — and leaves HOA covenants untouched
Chapter 22 rewrote Idaho Code § 67-6539 effective 1 July 2026, barring any local licence, fee, permit or registration for a short-term rental while saying nothing at all about private covenants.
Read the full updateA $300,000 price tag killed Delaware's HOA ombudsperson expansion
HB 469 would have put a Deputy Common Interest Community Ombudsperson in each county and created a dedicated fund. Filed 20 days before adjournment with a $292,617 recurring cost, it was never put on a committee agenda.
Read the full updateAlaska's 34th Legislature passed no HOA governance bill at all
Across 1,209 bill versions in the 2025-2026 session, nothing was introduced on association records, elections, fines, reserves, lien priority or foreclosure. Two enacted bills reached associations sideways.
Read the full updateAlaska human rights agency accuses condo association over a blind owner's safety railing
A formal Accusation alleges an Anchorage-area association refused to install a railing, then threatened daily fines and foreclosure when the owner installed one in the wrong colour. The allegations are unproven.
Read the full updateIdaho SB 1354 bars HOAs from enforcing ADU bans without the owner's written consent
Chapter 265 rewrote Idaho Code § 55-3212 effective 1 July 2026, replacing a narrow internal-unit rule with a consent model covering every accessory dwelling unit — and reaching enforcement, not just amendment.
Read the full updateIdaho cities over 10,000 must permit an ADU per lot by 1 February 2027
The zoning half of Chapter 265 adds Idaho Code § 67-6541, capping what a city may require on parking, fees, size, owner occupancy and height — and the figures in the enacted text are not the ones widely reported.
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