Not american here, I was watching a video on youtube and the guy said the main purpose of HOAs is to try to increase the neighborhood property value, for me this is completely crazy, shouldn’t it be about making the community better for people to live?

I mean if they are cheap and ugly and are designed terribly then yeah, they do bring a neighborhood down. I have a shipping container building going up in mine (8 stories of stacked containers) and it looks like shit. And guess what, it’s getting a massive parking garage right next to it too, so it’s the worst of both.