佛罗里达州公寓业主正面临高昂的建筑物修缮费用，而周一由共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯签署生效的一项新法案将为他们提供一定的经济援助。
新规赋予共管公寓业主协会更多灵活性，允许其自主决定储备金的积累方式，并放宽了部分安全评估要求。
这项法案的通过恰逢尚普兰大厦南楼局部坍塌四周年前夕。2021年，这起发生在瑟夫赛德市的灾难夺走了98条生命。新法案将于7月1日生效，旨在对2022年该事故后通过的公寓安全法进行改革。
共和党州参议员埃德·胡珀（Ed Hooper）在克利尔沃特举行的法案签署仪式上表示，2022年出台该法案旨在避免再次发生类似瑟夫赛德的垮塌事故。他反思称，当时制定的部分要求可能反应过度，立法者现正希望予以修正。
“现在是时候做出改变了，”胡珀（Hooper）说道。“老年人因为无力支付每月业主协会费用的上涨而失去他们的公寓，这是不对的。”
根据2022年颁布的法案，佛罗里达州的共管公寓业主面临成本上升的问题，该法案要求公寓协会预留充足资金以支付重大维修费用。瑟夫赛德坍塌事故发生后，部分居民被突如其来的高额费用弄得措手不及——这些费用用于支付多年来积压的维护开支，以使他们的建筑符合2022年立法的要求。
不断增加的翻修费用和储备基金建设给南佛罗里达州公寓天堂的居民带来了压力，尤其是退休人员和依靠固定收入生活的人群。
去年接连袭来的飓风给佛罗里达州西南沿海地区的公寓业主带来了沉重打击，坦帕湾沿岸社区遭受重创，迫使业主们不得不进行额外的翻修和维修工作。
“对我来说，跟进这些维修事宜简直是一份全职工作。”贝尔艾尔公寓业主厄尔·库珀谈及大楼修缮时说道，“飓风只会让问题成倍增加。”
新规允许特定公寓业主委员会通过贷款或信用额度来充实储备金。该措施还赋予居民更大灵活性，可在优先进行必要维修时暂停缴纳储备金，并延长了业主委员会完成建筑结构完整性研究的截止期限。部分小型建筑可免于开展此类分析。
德桑蒂斯表示："我认为这将缓解问题。但若明年立法机构重新召开时需要做一些清理工作，我们必须愿意去做。" ___ 凯特·佩恩是美联社/美国报道州议会新闻倡议的团队成员。美国报道是一个非营利性国家服务项目，该项目将记者派驻到地方新闻编辑室，以报道未被充分关注的问题。
Florida condominium residents grappling with the steep cost of building improvements will get some financial relief under a new bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday.
The new measure gives condo homeowner associations more flexibility in how to build up their reserve funds and eases some requirements for safety assessments.
Approval came the day before the fourth anniversary of the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South, which killed 98 people in Surfside in 2021. The new law goes into effect July 1 and is aimed at reforming a condo safety law passed in 2022 in the wake of that disaster.
Speaking at Mondays bill signing in Clearwater, Republican state Sen. Ed Hooper said the 2022 law was meant to ensure there was never another collapse like Surfside. In retrospect, he said some of the requirements enacted were probably an overreaction, which lawmakers are now hoping to correct.
Now its time to make the change, Hooper said. Elderly people are losing their condos because they could not afford to make the increase in their monthly HOA fees. Thats just wrong.
Condo owners in Florida faced rising costs under the 2022 law, which requires condo associations to have sufficient reserves to cover major repairs. In the aftermath of the Surfside disaster, some residents were caught off guard by hefty fees levied to cover years of deferred maintenance expenses required to bring their buildings into compliance with the 2022 legislation.
The mounting costs to cover renovations and build up reserve funds have strained residents in the condo haven of South Florida, especially retirees and those living on fixed incomes.
Condo owners along the states southwest coast have taken the extra hit of last years back-to-back hurricanes, which clobbered waterfront communities in the Tampa Bay area and forced additional renovations and repairs.
Its a full-time job for me keeping track of this, condo owner Earle Cooper said of the repairs to his building in Belleair. Hurricanes just multiply the problems.
The new measure allows certain condo associations to fund their reserves through a loan or line of credit. It also gives residents greater flexibility to pause payments into their reserve funds while they prioritize needed repairs and extends the deadline for associations to complete structural integrity studies. Some smaller buildings will be exempt from having to do those analyses.
I think that this will provide relief, DeSantis said. But to the extent that there needs to be some cleanup next year when the legislature reconvenes, we got to be willing to do that. ___ Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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