MHA Benefits

MHA is a non-profit, volunteer, statewide association, originally chartered as MCHA, by the State of Maryland in 1982.  MHA is the successor to the Maryland Condominium and Homeowner Association. Our association is the unified voice that promotes good governance of community associations.   MHA communicates with its  members  via  a  printed  newsletter,  the  Communicator and the e-mailed E-Communicator.

• In 1982 MHA requested that Montgomery County establish a Task Force for condominiums and homeowner associations.
• In 1983 MHA spearheaded the reinstatement of the Maryland State Commission on Condominiums, Cooperatives and Homeowners Associations to provide better protection for unit owners in the state law.
• In 1987 Montgomery County's Task Force and MHA successfully requested the establishment of the Montgomery County Commission on Common Ownership Communities to give technical assistance and settle problems in shared property ownership.
• In 1993 MHA was instrumental in preserving the protection in the present law for condominium owners.  Proposed changes to the State law would have diminished unit owners' rights.
• MHA's efforts reversed a State action that placed an adjusted fuel rate tax on residential common ownership communities for electric and other energy sources.
• In 1998, the Maryland Homeowner's Bill of Rights, initiated by MHA, granted homeowners basic rights, among them to speak at Board and Committee meetings, to assemble in common areas to discuss association matters and to distribute petitions or other condo/HOA materials to members.  These and other rights are now incorporated in Maryland law. See "Laws" on this web site for the full text of the Maryland Condominium Act or the Maryland Homeowners Association Act.
• In 2006, MHA has been providing information and testimony to the Maryland Task Force on Common Ownership Communities, a Task Force charged with evaluating HOA/Condo/Co-Op governance.
• In 2007 three MHA-supported bills became Maryland law.
  
• In 2008, MHA testified in favor of numerous homeowner-friendly bills.
  

Since 1982,  MHA has served the interests of unit owners and their common ownership communities, advocating good governance.  We will continue our important work.