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[[File:Condominiums in San Ramon 1 2016-05-17.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Condominiums in [[San Ramon, California]].]]

'''Common-interest development''' ('''CID''') is the fastest growing form of housing in the world today.<ref>{{cite web| title=Living in a California Common Interest Development| publisher=State of California Department of Real Estate| url=http://www.dre.cahwnet.gov/pub_re39.html| access-date=2010-10-04| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721033635/http://www.dre.cahwnet.gov/pub_re39.html| archive-date=2011-07-21| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| first= Evan| last= McKenzie| title= Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Governments| publisher= [[Yale University Press]]| isbn= 0-300-06638-4| pages= [https://archive.org/details/privato_mck_1994_00_6198/page/7 7]| url= https://archive.org/details/privato_mck_1994_00_6198/page/7}}</ref> They include [[condominium|condominiums]], community apartments, [[planned development|planned developments]], and stock cooperatives.<ref>{{cite web |title=Common Interest Development (CID) |url=https://www.davis-stirling.com/HOME/CID-Defined |publisher=Adams-Stirling Law Corporation |accessdate=5 June 2020}}</ref> TheA CID's ownership benefits of a CID are having rights to an undivided interest in common areas and amenities whichthat might prove to be too expensive to be solely owned. For example, an owner would like to have a pool but cannot afford one. When buying a [[condominium]] with a pool in a CID of one hundred units, an owner would have use of that pool for basically one-hundredth of the cost due to sharing the cost with the other 99 owners. [[Timeshare]], or vacation ownership, is the same concept. Where buyingBuying a second home for vacation purposes might not be financially possible,; buying a week or two can be when sharing the overall costs with other participants.

Within the United States, when a CID is developed, the developer is required to incorporate (in a form) a [[homeowner association]] (HOA) prior to any property sales. The role of the HOA is to manage the CID once the control is transferred from the developer. The HOA governs the CID based upon the incorporated [[restrictive covenant|covenants, conditions, and restrictions]] (CC&Rs) which were recorded when the property was subdivided. The CC&Rs will outline the financial [[budgeting]] guideline for the HOA in determining the dollar amount in maintenance fees for assessing the owners. In a wholly -owned CID, maintenance fees would normally be assessed on a monthly basis.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

==Growth in the United States==

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'''Undemocratic Boards:'''

The [[Homeowner association|CID Boards]] are often undemocratic. HOA board members are selected prior to the construction of the development and are only very rarely elected to their positions. YetHowever, in their communities, they take on the responsibilities and functions of [[Local government|municipal government]] officials.<ref name="Privatizing Government I: Utilities, Eminent Domain, and Local Government"/>

'''Effects on homelessness:'''

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'''Segmented Democracy:'''

"[[Douglas W. Rae]] has an essay titled ''Democratic Liberty and the Tyrannies of Place,'' which points to the fact that we're becoming an increasingly segmented democracy. That is, people tend to spend time around people that are like themselves. Of course, CIDs greatly facilitate that, because people will sort by income - or if you go to the ones in Florida, often by [[ethnic group]] - into these relatively [[Housing segregation in the United States|homogenous]], certainly financially homogenous, groups. We know from [[Cass R. Sunstein]] that like-minded people, if they just talk to one another, tend to become more [[Extremism|extreme]]. So if we get an increasingly segmented democracy of people only hanging around people who look and talk like themselves, this will reinforce a lot of the divisions which are contributing to the [[Political polarization|polarization]] of the electorate. This reinforces the "out of sight, out of mind" mentality about people not like themselves."<ref name="Privatizing Government I: Utilities, Eminent Domain, and Local Government"/>

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