Hialeah mayoral candidate Bryan Calvo lived for years in a home that received a low-income senior property-tax exemption intended for his parents, some of it while he served as a city council member, according to county records.
The Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser’s Office determined last year that the Hialeah home did not qualify for the senior exemption for homeowners 65 and older, which Calvo’s mother applied for in 2019 for tax years 2019-24. The family paid $5,282.97 last year to settle back taxes and penalties.
Calvo’s father inherited the home from his mother in November 2016. In January 2017, Calvo, then 19 and studying at Harvard, was added to the deed alongside his mother as a co-owner…