Many people in the United States and, increasingly in other parts of the world, are not allowed to hang out their clothes to dry in the sun. Community covenants, landlord prohibitions, and zoning laws are the three primary means of stopping people from using clotheslines. State and federal legislators are encouraged to introduce "Right to Dry" legislation to stem this growing problem.

Clotheslines are banned by tens of thousands of homeowners' associations nation-wide. Through a public airing of communities and landlords that prohibit the clothesline, we aim to encourage the use of the clothesline. We work with community activists to bring about a change in local policy. We maintain a Community Registry of places that ban or restrict clothesline use. We will soon begin a registry of places that are friendly to the outdoor clothesline. They will be listed as DryRite Communities.

This is a very incomplete listing (alphabetical by town) of just a few of the thousands of American communities that restrict or ban the use of clotheslines. Help us to expand this list by finding your friends and neighbors who cannot hang out their clothes.

Project Laundry List aims to collect pledges from a million clothesline and drying rack users.

Project Laundry List started when Middlebury College students, concerned about Hydro-Quebec's plans for major dam projects and the expansion of nuclear power, started to hang political messages on a clothesline.