[jyl]

Neighborhood bodies, whether they be HOAs or traditional neighborhood associations like mine, are always in need of people who are willing to step up, get involved, and work with others. If you’re have that mindset, you can always get a role and start making things better.

My neighborhood is not a HOA, and we’ve been seeing the disadvantages of that in the last few years. The city doesn’t do jack all for us and is increasingly hostile to our needs and wants. Our park has 50-60 tents and homeless people doing drugs, spreading trash, acting hostile all over the place. The police have been ordered to do nothing, and our neighborhood officer was taken away. Last night a deranged homeless guy was pounding on one neighbor’s house all night trying to break in. They called the police who merely shooed the guy away, but he kept coming back, finally in the morning they arrested him, but he’ll be released in 24 hours. The houses by the park are $1MM+ and the folks living there are under siege. Times like this, you kinda wish you had a HOA.