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By reaching out to your legislators about issues and legislation affecting the community association industry, you can help community associations remain preferred places to live and work!

CAI 2025 Congressional Advocacy Summit

CAI is thrilled to host our annual Congressional Advocacy Summit on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, November 6th

This exciting event is exclusively for CAI members and is free to attend. Together, we will meet with members of Congress and their staff, advocate for industry federal legislative priorities, and represent the interests of community associations and their residents nationwide.

CAI's 2025 Congressional Advocacy Summit is the premier advocacy event of the year for the community association housing model! Informative and inspirational, the CAI Congressional Advocacy Summit is your chance to speak with federal lawmakers and their staff face-to-face and help advance CAI’s public policy priorities.

Join us on Nov. 6 in Washington, D.C. - You won't want to miss it!

Act Now! Ask your Members of Congress to Delay the CTA!

Tell the Senate to support H.R. 736 and S. 505! H.R 736 was sent to the Senate on February 10, 2025, and S. 505 has nearly identical language. If passed, both bills would delay the Corporate Transparency Act’s implementation for pre-existing entities to January 1, 2026.

Act Now! Ask your Members of Congress to Repeal the CTA!

Tell Congress to support H.R. 425 and S. 100!  If passed, both bills would completely repeal the CTA and its beneficial owner reporting requirements.  

Support the Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow's Workforce Act

Tell Congress to support access to HOA/Condo Professional Certifications and Career Advancement by passing H.R. 1151/S. 756!

Support Disaster Assistance for Community Associations Today!

Tell Congress to support H.R. 834/S. 352 and amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide assistance for common interest communities, condominiums, and housing cooperatives damaged by a major disaster!

It's easy and you can make a difference!

It's easy and you can make a difference! If state or federal legislation is introduced that could impact your community, you will receive an advocacy alert email that includes easy ways for you to take action. The more people that take action, the better we can protect the the 77.1 million people living and working in America's 369,000 community associations! In 2024, around 14,500 advocates contacted their state and/or federal legislators over 23,500 times total to support or oppose legislation that impacted the community association industry.

Additional Resources

  • Simply enter your contact information to learn who your elected officials are at the federal and state levels. Tell them why you support community associations, and why this housing model works!
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  • Ambassadors will recruit, organize, and motivate other advocates. If an advocacy issue arises in your area, you will be called upon to help get the word out so that CAI has a stronger voice with legislators.​​​​
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  • You have an opportunity to help CAI gauge the reach of our collective networks and enable us to effectively plan for future public policy discussions
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Tell Your Legislators to Support Community Associations

Contact your legislators to support community associations. 

Become a CAI Advocate

If state or federal legislation impacting your community is introduced, you can sign up to receive an advocacy alert email that includes easy ways for you to act. The more people that act, the better we can protect people living and working in community associations. 

Guides for Effective Advocacy

As the national advocate for community associations, Community Associations Institute (CAI) is committed to encouraging the active participation of community association advocates in helping shape and define community association law and policy.

As part of our commitment to advocacy, CAI provides guidance to assist advocates nationwide in developing their advocacy skills and maximizing their impact. These are guides to help you in your advocacy efforts in the following areas:

Other Ways to Engage your Elected Officials

Questions? Contact Dawn Bauman, CAI Chief Strategy Officer at (888) 224-4321

CAI #VoteforHome!

84% of community association homeowners plan to vote in all national elections according to our research. This makes CAI members the most effective voting block in the nation.

Your Impact in 2024

Download CAI's Public Policy and Advocacy 2024 Overview to learn more about our grassroots advocacy work in 2024.