HOA's are making the home crisis worse

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Their records show 10,296 foreclosure suits the associations brought against their own members, 460,412 claims of lien and 277,047 lis pendens recorded against homes, 48,999 court records in all, and 6,661 associations whose own corporation has lapsed or fallen out of standing. A foreclosure suit is not a lost home — most end when the owner, or the owner's lender, pays — but the pressure is the point.

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