This is getting worse, by the way. What will people do once the city council decides HOAs must run schools as well?
Second, it sounds like you are saying they need to run for their HOA to end it and run for city council to tax rich people again so we can pay for basic bare minimum services again. Giving tax breaks for the rich and telling people to form an HOA for garbage collection is not a solution to anything. Vote out the current people who set this nonsense up.
Won't work if the HOA is a private company that owns 51% of the houses.
And there's no point if the HOA was smart enough to use debt to make this happen.
> ... and run for city council to tax rich people again so we can pay for basic bare minimum services again ...
If that's possible. I think in a lot of locales this is not possible, maybe even most. Frankly we'll need to change regulations again so housing/roads/sewage/water/electricity builds and repairs can become a LOT cheaper again, but I'm guessing nobody's up for that.
And income tax is bleeding local governments dry right now. I imagine Washington (and London, and Brussels, and ... because it's not like this problem is limited to the US) sees that as a feature and not a bug, but it's still something that can't continue indefinitely ...