Miami-Dade Approves Public Records For Condo Associations After Surfside Collapse

CBS Miami

March 2, 2022

As part of a package of legislation proposed after the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, the Miami-Dade commission has approved a new law that requires condominium and homeowners associations to make public financial statements and structural safety reports.

The Surfside collapse brought the issue of condo transparency “into stark visibility,” said Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who endorsed the legislation.

The law requires associations to upload financial statements, engineering reports, and maintenance documents related to long-term structural concerns about buildings to a publicly viewable county database by February 2023, according to CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald. Most of the documents were currently available to property owners but were otherwise not available to the public.

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