Florida's legislative response to the Surfside condo collapse takes effect at the end of this month, and there's a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth. If you're interested, it's the first segment of this podcast.

I listened to it yesterday, and it occurred to me that here was another example of irony as the fifth fundamental force of the universe.

Sen. Jennifer Bradley, Republican, essentially blames condo owners for their predicament, by failing to perform regular maintenance and providing the funding for major maintenance items, even though that was "already in the law." (That's a paraphrase, not a quote.)

That's true, there was just no real enforcement mechanism.

It occurred to me that the condo crisis is just a microcosmic version of the overall crisis in Florida, with the entrenched Republican legislature being the negligent condo owners.

There is a "special assessment" in every Floridian's future. You just don't want to be here when it's issued.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 08:33 Saturday, 14 December 2024