Mayor Daniella Levine Cava: “Making deeper cuts would be very short-sighted”

MIAMI – Mayor Daniella Levine Cava spoke Friday concerning the proposed funds and multi-year capital plan for Miami Dade County.  

Cava proposed a 1% property tax discount.  

That 1% discount Cava says will supply rapid aid to householders and in the event that they made deeper cuts important county providers would endure.  

Right now, they’re making any cuts with that discount.  

“I would hold the line on 1% because without those dollars a small amount to each homeowner but a large amount to the county budget for basic services and these needed housing services,” mentioned Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.   

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava says making deeper cuts would be very short-sighted; and in the event that they went past 1% they would have to chop from important providers comparable to police, hearth rescue, and extra.   

“Unlike a steep mileage cut where the large majority does not even go to homeowners instead investors and speculators who have been driving up our housing cost and rent prices would stand the most to gain for more drastic cuts,” mentioned Cava.   

A single mother of 5 we spoke to says that she’s trying to get a second job simply to try to place cash apart to someday purchase a house. 

But she says even with A 1% discount she would not be in a position to afford it.   

“What is the going to do for anybody like what is 1%,” mentioned Vanessa Session, a mother struggling to pay hire.   

Session says it isn’t making her journey in the direction of eager to develop into a house owner any simpler.  

“What is that really going to do when they’re raising rent, raising food prices…milk is 5 dollars! for one gallon! The cost of everything is going up, so what is 1% in that tax going to do…it’s not going to help nobody,” mentioned Session.  

Session is hopeful the county will put up extra reasonably priced housing, which Cava says they’re planning on doing.   

Cava’s proposed applications to proceed constructing housing and provide reasonably priced rental and home-owner alternatives.  

She mentioned they will try this by increasing the emergency rental help program, increasing current applications to offer pressing aid to householders, fund the constructing blocks incentive program for the primary 12 months to transform current housing into reasonably priced or workforce models.  

“You turn around they’re putting up a new condominium, but no one can afford to stay there if you really look at the rent and reality it’s like 2,000 for a one bedroom, who can afford that? When I’m already trying to get a second job just to afford my little 1400 dollars, it’s a lot to some people and not a lot to others but it’s a lot to me,” mentioned Session.    

Cava additionally said she is going to be working with the homeless belief in renovating a facility for senior residents experiencing homelessness.