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The Community Associations Institute (CAI) is an influential trade association and special interest group, dominated by lawyers and property managers, that petitions for legislative beneficence for its members. It is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia and has 57 chapters in the United States.

CAI is responsible for the National Board of Certification for Community Association Managers (NBC-CAM) program that was established in 1995. NBC-CAM is important in establishing standards for the Community Association managers, including certification. This also includes continuing education and professional development.

Since CAI was founded, in 1973, the people that build and service common interest developments (CIDs) have been a significant force in interest group politics in many states. According to McKenzie, the author of a book critical of common-interest developments, the CAI has been able to shape legislative and judicial policy making, prevent meaningful regulation of CID activity, and keep the discourse on such matters largely private. McKenzie charges that in the absence of meaningful legislative regulation or oversight, the idea of residential private government took the shape advocated originally by developers through the Urban Land Institute and the Federal Housing Administration, and later by lawyers and property managers through CAI. "One result," Professor McKenzie argues, "is the institutionalization of a heavy–handed managerial focus in CID governance."


References

  1. McKenzie, Evan. Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Governments. Yale University Press. p. 27. ISBN 0-300-06638-4.
  2. McKenzie, Privatopia, 119.
  3. Privatopia, 26.
  4. Privatopia, 121.
  5. Privatopia, 27.

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