The term may be vague, but there’s more than a one in five chance your residential enclave counts as one. Moreover, its meetings may be standing-room-only affairs. And what happens at those gatherings impacts the entire area.  These places are community associations. According to the Foundation for Community Association Research, they also go by such names as planned communities, homeowners or property owners associations, condominium communities and housing cooperatives.   Read the article……………..