HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — On Wednesday, Hillsborough County leaders will discuss dedicating more funding to helping people recover from the back-to-back hurricanes.
$5.6 million is the number on the table. That money would come from the Hope Affordable Housing Fund, which provides local public funds to create, preserve and fix up affordable housing.
This funding would be a big help specifically for mobile homeowners.
“The purpose of this is to fill in the gap where our state and federal funding can't help us," Brenda Brackins with the county said. "So, we can use some of our federal and state funding to help, but we can't use it to help those in mobile homes and mobile home parks.”
Another chunk of the money would go to provide services and programs to help other people in Hillsborough County recover from the hurricanes.
County leaders will consider this funding during the Board of County Commissioners meeting.
“You know, it might just be time we take a look if HOAs are really even necessary.
Maybe we should just do away with homeowner associations as a whole.”
South Florida lawmaker Rep. Juan Carlos Porras (R-Miami) says it may be time to do away with homeowners associations altogether, as more Floridians speak out about rising fees, costly lawsuits, and even arrests tied to HOA disputes. He said this week that he is considering filing legislation in the next session that would abolish HOAs statewide.
