Hialeah’s mayor signed an executive order today creating a new homeowners association task force, meant to help residents dealing with alleged malfeasance from HOA boards.
Mayor Bryan Calvo said at a press conference outside city hall Wednesday that Hialeah has 26,055 condominiums within its borders. He said the city has received hundreds of complaints from residents, many of them elderly, that their HOA boards have misused member fees and not performed necessary maintenance work. Calvo presented images of condo buildings in Hialeah with construction work left unfinished and a dilapidated parking garage with exposed rebar.
“ Many of these buildings — the passage of time has definitely taken its toll on them. They’re in dire straits and they need all the assistance that can be provided,” Calvo said. “ There are issues of malfeasance and misfeasance. You have property managers that sometimes are hired out, and they don’t care about the property and they’re just there to line their pockets.”…