Amendment 3: Homestead Tax Exemptions, Property Assessments, and Spending Restrictions Amendment

🛑Give this amendment a NO with confidence! This dangerous proposal would save some homeowners a couple of bucks, but would reduce public funding by billions of dollars. The bad consequences would be felt by all of us -- less investment in healthcare, housing, education and public safety. If you are curious about the impact, you can use the Amendment 3 Impact Calculator to see how much is at stake.

Local governments stand to lose billions of dollars if this passes. It could affect everything from local infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.), fire departments, libraries and more.

Link to League of Women Voters Explainer

This will affect wrap around education services like Public Libraries, and services provided by the Children’s Trust like afterschool care, mental health services, summer camps, health and dental services, as well as public hospitals like Jackson Memorial. And by effect, I mean programs parents rely on will be cut. This also places a bigger burden on renters, and can make it more expensive to be a single mom, or even women who are trying to leave volatile relationships.

Our infrastructure depends on the property taxes paid. Homestead exemptions were intended to assist home owners in their actual day to day homes. Corporations and investors should not get the benefit of rent and property value increases without paying back into the community. Our roads, schools, libraries, emergency services, etc depend on this

It will destroy local government!

Though this seems good at first glance, it would not save Floridians much money as individuals and it would gut and cut programs that serve & protect our people, parks, and planet.