{"id":181022,"date":"2026-03-06T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181022\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:12:09","slug":"hialeah-bet-on-senior-tax-relief-tests-floridas-shifting-property-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181022\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah bet on senior tax relief tests Florida\u2019s shifting property landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Bryan Calvo cast the move as proof that municipal government could move faster than the state. \u201cThey said it couldn&#8217;t be done, and we did it,\u201d Calvo said. \u201cAnd we did it in less than 45 days of this new administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He framed the program as budget\u2011neutral for other residents. \u201cIt means that we are not cutting any services, we are not eliminating any services, and at the same time, we are not raising taxes on any other revenue stream,\u201d Calvo said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the city \u201cfront\u2011loads\u00a0some of our pension commitments\u201d to free up roughly $1.2 million for the rebates.<\/p>\n<p>Under the ordinance, homeowners need\u00a0to be at least 65, own and live in a homesteaded property in Hialeah and report annual income of $37,694 or less, matching the state threshold for certain senior exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>Qualified households who already received the senior exemption are set to get checks automatically by the end of March, with average rebates around $539.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Bryan Calvo cast the move as proof that municipal government could move faster than the state. \u201cThey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,85470,8191,85471],"class_list":["post-181022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hialeah-senior-tax-relief","tag-property-tax","tag-property-tax-rebate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181022","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=181022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}