1949–1989 Collectivised, protected, and left aloneDružstvo, ochrana a pokoj

Under communism the estate's forests were nationalised, farming was merged into a cooperative, and work moved to the factories at Tvrdošín, Nižná and Trstená. The mountains above the village were given a legal status they had never had: the Tatra National Park came into force on 1 January 1949, and the Western Tatras, the Roháče, were moved into the park proper by a government decree in 1987. Habovka itself got neither a museum nor a reserve, and that is exactly why it looks the way it does. Its log houses were never selected, moved or listed — they were simply not replaced, and then, quite suddenly, they were worth something.Za komunizmu panské lesy zoštátnili, gazdovanie zlúčili do družstva a práca sa presunula do závodov v Tvrdošíne, Nižnej a Trstenej. Hory nad dedinou dostali právne postavenie, aké nikdy nemali: Tatranský národný park nadobudol účinnosť 1. januára 1949 a Západné Tatry, teda Roháče, sa nariadením vlády v roku 1987 stali priamo jeho súčasťou. Samotná Habovka nedostala ani múzeum, ani rezerváciu — a práve preto vyzerá tak, ako vyzerá. Jej zruby nikto nevybral, nepresťahoval ani nezapísal; jednoducho ich nikto nenahradil, a potom mali zrazu cenu.