{"id":325084,"date":"2026-06-30T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325084\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:21:09","slug":"fl-activist-wants-to-help-renters-report-unsafe-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325084\/","title":{"rendered":"FL Activist Wants To Help Renters Report Unsafe Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, Stevens wants to make the service available free to low-income renters living in unsafe housing conditions through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-snitch-protect-vulnerable-florida-renters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a newly launched GoFundMe campaign<\/a>. The money raised will cover complaint submissions for those who can\u2019t afford his fee. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I saw Pebble Creek, I realized these are the people with the least ability to complain about their landlord,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you&#8217;re living paycheck to paycheck, $150 is a lot of money. And the last thing you want to do is put your name on a complaint against the person who controls whether you have a place to live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The effort is aimed at residents dealing with housing conditions, not neighbor disputes or general complaints about commercial properties, Stevens added. <\/p>\n<p>It will help subsidize complaints from tenants facing serious housing issues, such as deteriorating stairwells, mold, faulty plumbing, or other health and safety concerns. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not raising money so you can file a complaint against your neighbor because you don&#8217;t like their yard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is really about housing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, Stevens wants to make the service available free to low-income renters living in unsafe housing conditions through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-325084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325084","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=325084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}