{"id":35486,"date":"2023-09-02T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=35486"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:07:29","slug":"florida-homeowners-brace-for-potential-hurricane-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/09\/02\/florida-homeowners-brace-for-potential-hurricane-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida homeowners brace for potential hurricane tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Florida homeowners are worried a hurricane tax could be looming over the state as hurricane season is in high gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While&nbsp;Hurricane Idalia&nbsp;spared Southwest Florida, there is fear that another big storm to any part of the state could leave everyone paying for repair bills for years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a private insurance company gets hit with a big storm and they can\u2019t afford to pay out\u2026 they can go bankrupt.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, state-run Citizens can\u2019t go belly up, so that leaves people statewide \u2014 even those who don\u2019t own a home in Florida, picking up the tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DeSantis-1024x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DeSantis-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DeSantis-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DeSantis-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DeSantis.jpg 1160w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Governor Ron DeSantis warned back in March that Citizens simply doesn\u2019t have enough money to cover its more than 1.3 million policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cI think as most people know Citizens has not been solvent, if you did have a major hurricane hit with a lot of citizen\u2019s property holders it would not have enough to pay out,\u201d DeSantis stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Florida homeowners are worried a hurricane tax could be looming over the state as hurricane season is in high gear. While&nbsp;Hurricane Idalia&nbsp;spared Southwest Florida, there is fear that another&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[5905],"class_list":["post-35486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-florida-homeowners-brace-for-potential-hurricane-tax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35488,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35486\/revisions\/35488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}