Hialeah Mayor Bryan Calvo called a press conference on Wednesday to announce a task force that would look into resident complaints about condo and HOA associations.
The event and signing were scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, at Hialeah City Hall.
The panel will be called the City of Hialeah Condominium and Homeowners Association Task Force (CHAT).
This initiative adds to bills such as one introduced in the Florida Legislature aimed at giving homeowners more tools while increasing transparency and accountability within these associations.
In recent years, multiple allegations have surfaced against HOA board members in South Florida, including the series of arrests announced by Katherine Fernandez Rundle involving leaders of The Hammocks community after a yearslong investigation.
As Telemundo 51 reported in January 2026, homeowner associations govern millions of Floridians: they enforce rules, collect fees, and handle the upkeep of common areas. But for some residents, disputes with their boards have had extreme consequences.
One of them is Borja De La Plaza, who says he is facing a multimillion-dollar assessment and that conditions in his building have become unsustainable.
“What we’ve endured in our building has been terrible management — and I’d even say malicious… and because of it, owners are suffering damage that I consider irreparable,” De La Plaza said.
Now, under this bill, homeowners could have access to a mechanism that did not exist before. The sponsor is state Rep. Juan Carlos Porras, a Miami-Dade Republican who represents the Kendall area.
“It will ensure that homeowners have a stronger voice with their associations,” Porras said.
The state proposal would allow owners to begin a process to dissolve an HOA if enough residents support it.
The task force in Hialeah would be Calvo’s second initiative, focused on scrutinizing practices that directly affect city residents.
The first task force proposed and created by Calvo was CUBAT, or the Cuba Business Advisory Task Force.
With the signing of that first executive order, the mayor authorized the task force to review business licenses and suspend those of companies with ties to the Cuban government.
CUBAT is tasked with “reviewing all City of Hialeah contracts to eliminate any fraud, abuse, or waste that exists in this city.”
This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC 6 editor reviewed the translation.