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Deed Man Walking (last of x)

How Say You? All metrics traditionally relevant wouldindicate that HOAs have the power topreserve existing single-family detacheddwelling communities. They represent awealthy, diversified, large and exponentiallyincreasing demographic. Additionally, whilepaying lip service to freedom of use, enjoyment and alienation of real property, decisional law in our commonwealth to dategenerally enforces restrictive covenants.As to the question posed in … Continue reading Deed Man Walking (last of x) →

Djellaba Democracy

ohhh , I’m so happy about what’s going on in Dearborn, Mich: Muslim parents mobbing the school board meetings to protest LGBTQ and transgender books and “education”. “intersectionality” has its limits, (as anybody who sincerely believes anything has always known: Duh!) and now, we’re hitting the barrier headlong, like a crash dummy (exactly like that). … Continue reading Djellaba Democracy →

“We will overcome the environmentalist assault on single family homes.”

Edward Ring has an article up on the American Greatness site today: How Republicans can Achieve Super-majority Status—and the sentence quoted above is one of the “radical” propositions he says we must assert to do so. My article Deed Men Walkin’, which Simon has graciously been serializing here, attempts to expose that “asault”, which the … Continue reading “We will overcome the environmentalist assault on single family homes.” →

Deed Man Walking (5 of x)

Home(s) of the Brave?In Pennsylvania, there are over 6,800homeowners associations. Residents pay$2.5 billion a year to maintain theircommunities. Homes in communityassociations are generally valued at least4% more than other single-family homes.And 47,000 Pennsylvanians serve as volunteers on the boards of HOAs (in caseyou’ve ever wondered what happened toall the student council officers you knewin high … Continue reading Deed Man Walking (5 of x) →

Deed Men Walkin: Back then, individual home ownership was the solution; presently, it is often seen as problem.

But if R-1 zoning is moribund, what aboutresidential “planned communities”? Theyhave an inner redoubt: the declaration ofcovenants, easements and restrictions to The Pennsylvania Lawyer 37 May/June 2022which all owners contractually agree, andthe provisions of which are referenced inevery deed: large lots, one single-familydwelling per lot, no other uses involvinggreater density nor, heaven forfend, anybusiness or … Continue reading Deed Men Walkin: Back then, individual home ownership was the solution; presently, it is often seen as problem. →