Better decisions for homeowner associations and residents committees

Witchcliffe Ecovillage community

Loomio helps HOAs, body corporates, and residents committees make transparent decisions together — without the endless back-and-forth emails and poorly-attended meetings.

Loomio becomes indispensable when combined with personal interaction. Meeting minutes, agendas, decisions, objections — it's all there, creating an invaluable archive. — Witchcliffe Ecovillage (100 households, Western Australia)

Your community deserves better than a group chat and a meeting once a year.

Homeowner associations and residents committees have real decisions to make: special assessments, bylaw amendments, contractor approvals, rule changes, board elections. When those decisions live in scattered emails or rushed AGMs, residents disengage — and disputes follow. Loomio gives your community a clear, documented process that everyone can trust.

What makes HOA governance so frustrating?

The challenge What it costs you
Poor meeting attendance Decisions made by whoever showed up — then contested by everyone who didn't
Decisions lost in email No single record of what was decided, who voted, or why — creating liability and revisiting the same arguments year after year
A handful of residents dominating Vocal neighbours set the agenda; quieter homeowners disengage or feel steamrolled
Quorum failures You can't pass a resolution because you can't get enough people in a room at the same time
New board members starting from scratch Institutional memory walks out the door every time a committee changes

Loomio gives your HOA a proper home for proposals, votes, and the record that protects everyone

What you need On Loomio
Resident votes that don't require a meeting Post a proposal — a special assessment, a contractor quote, a rule change — and let homeowners vote in their own time. All votes are recorded and final.
A permanent decision archive Every proposal, discussion, and outcome is searchable and dated. When a dispute comes up next year, you can point to exactly what was agreed and why.
Transparent process for all residents Everyone can see what's being discussed and decided — no backroom deals, no "the committee decided" without explanation.
Board deliberation between meetings Handle routine approvals and urgent matters without calling a special meeting. Reserve in-person time for conversations that actually benefit from being in a room together.
Separate spaces for committees Maintenance, social, finance — each working group manages its own proposals without cluttering the main feed.

Screenshot of a community proposal in Loomio

Used by communities that want to govern themselves well

From small apartment body corporates to growing ecovillages, communities use Loomio to replace the chaos of group chats and the frustration of poorly-attended AGMs with a process residents actually trust.

Witchcliffe Ecovillage (100 households in Western Australia) replaced conventional strata management entirely — using Loomio for every community decision, from cluster-level proposals to whole-village votes. Their community decision archive has become one of their most valued assets.

Loomio's Community plan is designed for exactly this kind of group — affordable, simple, and built for the long term.

Ecovillage

An ecovillage replaces strata management with democracy

100 households in wine country — growing to 350 — ditched conventional strata management to govern themselves, and they're building the playbook as they go.

  • Decisions across neighbourhood clusters
  • Transparent community decision archive
  • Equal say for all residents
  • Self-governance replacing strata management
Case study: Witchcliffe Ecovillage
An ecovillage replaces strata management with democracy

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