Civic & Social Organization - Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Supporting principles of American democracyMr. Staropoli is an Arizona resident who has been active as a homeowners rights advocate since April 2000. He has appeared before legislative committees in Nevada, Florida and Arizona. His opinions and views have appeared in the national media: Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, CNN/MoneyOnline and in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Palm Beach Post, as well as on local TV news and in the Arizona Capitol Times. Mr. Staropoli has been quoted in Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government (2005), AARP Policy Institute Homeowners Bill of Rights proposal (2006), and acknowledged in the Thomson – West legal treatise, California Common Interest Developments – Homeowner's Guide (2006).In 2000 he founded and is president of the nonprofit Citizens for Constitutional Local Government, Inc, Scottsdale, AZ, a nonprofit organization seeking to inform the legislators and public about common interest property issues and to expose the prevalent myths and propaganda about carefree living in an HOA. Citizens believes in supporting principles of American democracy.George is author of "Establishing the New America of independent HOA principalities" (2008), and has published several books and videos on reforming planned communities and their HOA form of government. He is editor of Buyer's Guide to Living in a Community Association (2001), and he is author of The Case Against State Protection of Homeowner Associations (2003), reaching a growing audience of concerned people. The author, a veteran homeowner rights activist, makes his case against state government protection of homeowner associations. He documents, using his appearances before the Arizona Legislature, state legislative hostility toward upholding the civil liberties of homeowners with their broad, misguided interpretation of "private contract" prohibitions, and the use of statutes that favor the HOA.
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