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The crisis of Florida’s apartment at its point. Talahassi legislators must act. | Opinion – Palm Beach Post

The crisis of Florida’s apartment at its point. Talahassi legislators must act. | Opinion – Palm Beach Post


Many who do not want to retreat their coastal views or a nearby life have a carpet in a pile of drawn from under them.

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The quality of life that has been achieved for so long for those of us with moderate income is now threatening to slip beyond our range. The life of Condo, which has been attracting millions out of stanters to the heat and coast prize of Florida for decades, is increasingly expensive to maintain, especially for retirees.

Some are lucky enough to pocket money from developers who want to replace their aging buildings with luxury towers. But many who do not want to give their coastal views or their loved ones alive, pull the carpet out of a bunch of exceptional repair. Some of them can be foreclosed, expelled or evacuated and see their buildings convicted.

Palm Beach Post reported that by mid -January, almost one in five Kondo buildings in Palm Beach County, which were covered by the new State Safety Inspection Act, failed to submit even initial verification reports. This is a sure sign of an oncoming crisis.

The district government is in the difficult position to decide whether to fine the owners in order to cooperate with compliance with the Safety Act, they are helpless to obey because it is too difficult or expensive. But this is not the county the owners should be afraid of; State MPs are, who, although they defend us in Talahasi, have failed to act.

We are almost helpless to react as individuals. Our state government must respond for us. The time is now. During their session next month, Florida legislators must summon political courage to acknowledge reality. Climate change time has ended. Knee time before the lobbyists of the insurance industry is over. Your voters need your help.

Palm Beach County, Florida has an old problem with Condo

The crisis was urgent with the collapse in 2021 on an attractive Surfside Tower, which at one point in terror after a muscled night buried 98 lives in a pile of debris. The next term to check, the challenge for retirees in itself to navigate, is now due, at a time when insurers have increased percentages in anticipation of climate extremes that increase the frequency of hurricanes and floods.

This is no small problem. According to Mike Diamond, Post, a Florida political project, evaluates that Florida has more than 1.1 million condoms in buildings over 30 years. Palm Beach County has nearly 160,000 of them and many owners are increasingly desperate to sell. “West Palm Beach, according to the report, marked an annual increase in lists of 52%,” writes Diamond, “One of the highest in Florida.”

Peter Zewski, founder of Condo Vultures Realty, says the county is deep on the buyer’s market, with a 10.1-month delivery of apartments waiting for new owners. The stands in buildings 30 plus years represent 84 percent of 6100 lists of Palm Beach County and these are for much lower prices than the average on the market.

The problem is climate change. The Floridians deserve solutions.

In recent months, we have heard the lawyers of the developers calling on Kondo’s owners to take the money and run. In this post we have released one or two columns for OP-E. This is a valid option for many, given the financial pressure that is reducing, not to mention equally valid concerns about the safety of buildings.

But this is not a solution for those who want to stay and avoid dealing with the main problems: the need to help the Condo associations strengthen their structures and find alternatives or to impose restrictions on the insurance industry that does not offer its own own decisions. And he does nothing to deal with the main culprit: the climate we have taxed beyond his capacity to absorb what the wind blows.

Florida voters this year should send a message to the climate denials in the halls of power. The Floridians suffer and decisions will not be presented.

After seeing “complete unknown” of the films recently, it was difficult not to be impressed again with the timeliness of Bob Dylan’s lyrics. His 1963 song “The Time in which they are changing,” rang equally true about the new challenges we face. Tell those standing on the road, he sang, “Your old time is quickly agine / please leave the new one / if you can’t lend a hand.”

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