Miami-Dade County Providing Condo Owners Assistance for Special Assessments - NBC 6 South Florida

Miami-Dade County is offering immoderate condo owners loans up to $50,000 to screen costs associated with peculiar assessments.

“A indebtedness up to $50,000, with zero percent interest,” said Ignacio Ortiz Petit, Senior enforcement adjunct to the enforcement manager of Miami-Dade Public Housing. “This is simply a programme that we person done successful conjunction with our mayor, Daniella Levine Cava, the committee of region commissioners to assistance people.”

The wealth is meant to lighten the load of peculiar assessments costs connected condo owners erstwhile it comes to bringing condo buildings up to code.

“For structural issues, you person concrete. You person concrete, you person plumbing, you person electricity, that benignant of happening to bring the gathering into a recertification process,” Ortiz Petit said.

“Qualifying owners making little than 140% of the country median income (AMI) tin get up to $50,000 successful assistance to wage for these assessments,” the region said successful a quality release. “Individuals earning little than $95,620; couples making little than $109,200; 3 idiosyncratic households earning little than $122,920; and households of 4 making little than $136,500 whitethorn beryllium eligible.”

Click present for the Miami-Dade County condominium peculiar assessments application.

Martin Langesfeld’s sister Nicky Langesfeld and his brother-in-law Luis Saovnic were killed successful the Surfside condo collapse.

After the tragedy, Martin Langesfeld became an advocator for condo safety. 

“In the lawsuit of the Surfside gathering collapse, determination were implicit $10 cardinal successful peculiar assessments waiting for the condo owners to pay,” helium said.

NBC 6 reported successful 2021 erstwhile documents revealed a bid bundle and plans successful the days earlier the illness to marque much than $10 cardinal successful repairs astatine Champlain Towers South.

While the gathering fell down conscionable nether 2 weeks earlier the deadline for contractors to marque their last bids, engineers acquainted with the task cautioned thing successful the documents suggested an impending failure.

Langesfeld says the loans are a measurement successful the close direction, but helium believes much tin beryllium done to amended condo safety. 

“So that is wherefore the gathering authorities codes request to beryllium changed from the beginning,” helium said. “Not lone loans to help.”