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.<\/p>\n
The event and signing were scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, at Hialeah City Hall.<\/p>\n
The panel will be called the City of Hialeah Condominium and Homeowners Association Task Force (CHAT).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019ve endured in our building has been terrible management \u2014 and I\u2019d even say malicious\u2026 and because of it, owners are suffering damage that I consider irreparable,\u201d De La Plaza said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will ensure that homeowners have a stronger voice with their associations,\u201d Porras said.<\/p>\n
The state proposal would allow owners to begin a process to dissolve an HOA if enough residents support it.<\/p>\n
The task force in Hialeah would be Calvo\u2019s second initiative, focused on scrutinizing practices that directly affect city residents.<\/p>\n
The first task force proposed and created by Calvo was CUBAT, or the Cuba Business Advisory Task Force.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
CUBAT is tasked with \u201creviewing all City of Hialeah contracts to eliminate any fraud, abuse, or waste that exists in this city.\u201d<\/p>\n
This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC 6 editor reviewed the translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hialeah Mayor Bryan Calvo called a press conference on Wednesday to announce a task force that would look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-190839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190839","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=190839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}