But there is no "right" to high property values. However there is a right to have an oddball home if it is on private property. Therefore HOA's are anti-private property.
Let me help you out here dude....your "right" is to live in, or NOT live in, an area with an HOA. Once you're in, and once you pay for the right to have your property value protected, you do indeed have the right at that point. You just are confused on when the rights are exercised. There is NO CONSTITUTIONAL right to do other than choose where you live carefully.....so to speak.
But there is a right to free association. (OK; it's been shite-canned; but it supposedly is an American right.) If people want to freely choose to live in an HOA for the benefits of it and are willing to do the work of keeping it free (freedom isn't free; everyone must pitch in), then they have a right to form an association where everyone has the same goal of maintaining property values.
If the whole idea of an HOA is not for you, by no means should you move in and then complain. You would have to put your signature on an agreement to abide by the rules if you buy into an HOA community. People shouldn't sign on and then moan.