Community Insider Spring 2020 | Page 17

According to the US Census Bureau website, the owner-occupied housing unit rate between 2014 and 2018 was 54.6% in California and 53.1% in San Diego County, respectively. While information on renters within homeowners’ associations could not be found, one can assume that most community associations probably have a fair number of renters. While renters do not have membership status in the association, they are still members of the community. It is important that association boards and community managers do not to ignore this population. Renters have equal access to association common /cai.sd /in/caisandiego WWW.CAI-SD.ORG | 17