ABSTRACT
This chapter explores emergent condominium regulatory authorities in North America. It provides a brief history of their emergence and outlines their common features and underlying logics. Condominium regulatory authorities have emerged amidst widespread calls for consumer protections dating back to at least the 1970s. In the 1980s, problems around transparency, mismanagement, undemocratic practices, fraud, and abuses of power by board members and property managers increasingly exposed the troubling nature of the condominiums’ internal governance structures and operations. Ontario is the only jurisdiction to have established both a condominium authority and a dispute resolution tribunal in North America, and it therefore makes sense to describe it in detail. Many jurisdictions stand to benefit from what is now the predominant form of new housing in North America’s rapidly growing cities and city regions. Condominium growth aligns with several shared governmental policy objectives.
