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Private Governments and Private Services: Homeowners Associations in the City and Behind the Gate

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  • Barbara Coyle McCabe
  • Jill Tao

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In this article, we examine homeowners associations (HOAs) as private providers of what are traditionally considered local government services: streets, security, recreation, maintenance, and public works (e.g., water, drainage, sewerage, and trash collection). Although much has been theorized about the nature of such organizations, little empirical data has been collected to examine these prescriptions. We present the results of a 2005 survey of large‐scale HOAs to shed light on the characteristics of such associations, and especially the nature of their relationships with local governments that may be providing similar services. We find that the survey raises interesting questions about how these associations interact with local governments, and that the nature of private as opposed to public governance demands further study.

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  • Barbara Coyle McCabe & Jill Tao, 2006. "Private Governments and Private Services: Homeowners Associations in the City and Behind the Gate," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 23(6), pages 1143-1157, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:23:y:2006:i:6:p:1143-1157
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00257.x
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    1. Ron Cheung & Rachel Meltzer, 2013. "Homeowners Associations And The Demand For Local Land Use Regulation," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(3), pages 511-534, August.
    2. Stefano Moroni, 2014. "Towards a general theory of contractual communities: neither necessarily gated, nor a form of privatization," Chapters, in: David Emanuel Andersson & Stefano Moroni (ed.), Cities and Private Planning, chapter 3, pages 38-65, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Cheung, Ron & Cunningham, Chris & Meltzer, Rachel, 2014. "Do homeowners associations mitigate or aggravate negative spillovers from neighboring homeowner distress?," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 24(C), pages 75-88.
    4. Turner, V. Kelly, 2022. "The environmental consequences of residential land tenure in single family neighborhoods," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).

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