{"id":128313,"date":"2026-01-22T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128313\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T21:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:42:13","slug":"78-of-voters-support-overhauling-floridas-hoa-dispute-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128313\/","title":{"rendered":"78% of voters support overhauling Florida\u2019s HOA dispute rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legislation by Miami Republican Rep. Juan Porras that would revamp how Florida handles disputes with condo and homeowners\u2019 associations (HOAs) has broad, bipartisan support among Florida voters, new polling shows.<\/p>\n

A survey this week by the Civic Data & Research Institute<\/a> found that more than 3 in 4 Sunshine State voters \u2014 78% \u2014 are in favor of the measure\u2019s aims, which include allowing HOA disputes to go directly to court (rather than through pre-lawsuit mediation) and creating a process for homeowners to dissolve their HOA.<\/p>\n

Porras\u2019 bill (HB 657<\/a>) cleared its first House committee with unanimous support<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A by-party breakdown of the poll\u2019s results shows the cross-aisle approval was warranted.<\/p>\n

According to Civic Data, 82% of Republicans back the changes contemplated in HB 657, with just 18% opposing. Seventy-five percent of Democrats and 77% of third- and no-party voters approve too, with 25% and 23% saying otherwise, respectively.<\/p>\n

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Civic Research polled 1,001 likely General Election voters online between Jan. 19-22. The survey had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.<\/p>\n

Republicans composed 45% of respondents, while Democratic and no-party voters respectively made up 31% and 24%. Respondents were 52% female, 65% White, 16% Hispanic, 13% Black, 31% 65 or older and 33% ages 45 to 64.<\/p>\n

Thirty-eight percent reported earning less than $50,000, while 36% said they earn $50,000 to $100,000, 15% earn $101,000 to $150,000, and 8% earn more than that.<\/p>\n

According to Porras, more than 60% of Florida\u2019s homes are within HOAs, accounting for more than 8 million homeowners statewide.<\/p>\n

If passed, HB 657 would create a state-funded court process to address condo and HOA disputes, which would replace the existing pre-lawsuit mediation process required today.<\/p>\n

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It would also enable homeowners to begin the process of dissolving an HOA with petition signatures from just 20% of members. An election and final approval by a judge would be required after that for an organization to be terminated.<\/p>\n

Further, the measure would mandate that HOAs include Kaufman language<\/a>\u00a0in their governing documents that require organization bylaws to automatically change in accordance with updates to state law.<\/p>\n

HB 657 will next go to the\u00a0House Civil Justice and Claims Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A similar Senate bill (SB 1498<\/a>) by Fleming Island Republican Sen.\u00a0Jennifer Bradley\u00a0awaits a first committee hearing.<\/p>\n

The Civic Data poll comes less than a year and a half after a Tyson National Research Firm found most Floridians like their HOAs and condo associations, with 65% saying they were satisfied<\/a> with their community association governing bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legislation by Miami Republican Rep. Juan Porras that would revamp how Florida handles disputes with condo and homeowners\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63432,63433,28,30,29,62999,1042,30775,63434,15902,5894,8188,22306,63435,63436],"class_list":["post-128313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-civic-data-research-institute","tag-civic-data-and-research-institute","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hb-657","tag-hoa","tag-hoas","tag-homeowner-associations","tag-homeowners-associations","tag-jennifer-bradley","tag-juan-porras","tag-poll","tag-polling","tag-sb-1498"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}