Two experienced Bay Area activists promoting democratically governed housing communities will meet in Berkeley on Thursday, 10 January, for a discussion titled “Democracy at Home: Civil Liberties in Co-ops, Condos, and Cohousing”.
The meeting will take place at 2550 Dana Street (“Berkeley Town House”) at 7 p.m. All BTH members and residents are welcome. If you are from elsewhere you are welcome to attend, but please comment below or via my message form, so I can arrange for you to be admitted into the (secure) building.
Please note that I’m the host of this meeting; it isn’t being sponsored by Berkeley Town House Cooperative Corporation. (One of the benefits enjoyed by us who live at BTH is free shared access to a vast common meeting area and common kitchen, covering about half of the first floor.)
Here are links to some relevant information, if you’d like to do any background reading:
- CID Homeowner Bill of Rights
- Laguna Publishing Co. v. Golden Rain Foundation (1982), 131 Cal. App. 3d 816 [182 Cal. Rptr. 813]
- Lisa J. Chadderdon, “No Political SpeechAllowed: Common Interest Developments, Homeowners Associations, and Restrictions on Free Speech”, Journal of Land Use, 21.2 (2006), 233–264
- CBTR v. TRHA, 929 A.2d 1060 (2007)
- S. Colin G. Petry, “The regulation of common interest developments as it relates to political expression: the argument for liberty and economic efficiency”, Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2009
- Tyler P. Berding, “The Contractual Community: Why Community Associations Are Not ‘Governments’”
Can you put me in contact with the speakers? I missed the event but live Ina small coop type house in north Oakland and we host speakers and would like to see if they’re interested on speaking.
Thanks for your question. When we reschedule this panel discussion, you’ll be able to come and meet the speakers. Alternatively, you can contact them in care of the organizations with which they are affiliated: Marjorie Murray at the Center for California Homeowner Association Law and Rick Lewis at the Bay Area Community Land Trust.