A.J. Manaseer
@AJManaseer
Manager of RE PE investment funds (multifamily & student housing), politically centrist, immigrant, husband, father
I volunteer.
Every local government should just have one independent guy with veto power who can just tell unions no and not receive political backlash
This pension decision is really the line in the sand with regards to @GovPritzker. If he does the right thing and protects the battered taxpayers of Illinois by vetoing the pension sweetener he will have earned unending support by a large, vocal, and motivated group of…
llinois was one of only three states to lose population in the last Census. Now Now Gov. JB Pritzker may turbocharge Illinois’s troubles, write @ilpoliski and Ed Bacharach on.wsj.com/46i3wPd
Remember when I was railing against the bike lane fanatic JB chose to head IDOT?
Illinois politicians: “We need to invest in roads!” Also Illinois politicians: “Let’s divert $308 million from the road fund toward stuff that has literally nothing to do with roads.” illinoispolicy.org/illinois-moves…
The entire argument these people try to make is “there are still some rich people left in this state and you should take their money and give it to us.” No moral persuasion even attempted - just covetous, vibes-based, government confiscation. Meanwhile Illinois now dedicates…
Today, we held a Bake Sale for Billionaires—because apparently, Illinois has money for the ultra-wealthy, but not for our public schools. While classrooms go underfunded, educators face layoffs, and Trump attacks our education institutions —billionaires keep getting tax…
The Golden Age for Chicago Landlords* *Brought to you by the Chicago Teachers Union, United Working Families, and Democratic Socialists of America.
Chicago dead last among major U.S. metros on building new homes ebx.sh/ksiEtD
This woman is at the very top of the list of villains in this city. The supposed adult in the room, she gives faux intellectual cover to all the destructive “revenue” schemes floated by the CTU and other parasites that are sucking the city’s blood. Truly Chicago Hall of Shame…
Tell me Chicago’s CFO doesn’t ride the @cta without telling me me she doesn’t. 😳🤦♂️ h/t @business
The last two years of Johnson’s pathetic tenure as Mayor are going to make the first two seem like a cakewalk. All of his financially illiterate decisions are going to come home to roost and he will face a City Council solidly opposed to raising property taxes. It’s going to be…
Chicago CFO Jill Jaworski yesterday told Bloomberg News that the city "will likely seek to raise property taxes" in next year’s budget to address a looming deficit and help close the gap in the 2026 budget package. Raising property taxes before the mayor election?! Yikes
This is unequivocally fantastic news. @GovPritzker is wise enough to realize that this “sweetener” is not sweet at all but rather bitter poison almost certain to irrevocably sink the entire pension fund (and all of us taxpayers along with it). He’s going to do it. He’s going…
WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says today that his office is still evaluating the Chicago pension sweetener bill sitting on his desk. “One thing to consider of course is the finances for the city of Chicago. How will they pay for it?” The governor is asking the right…
Clear, direct, easy to secure development incentives are the *only* way to guarantee a significant increase in new housing construction. Things like the elimination of parking mandates and less red tape help marginally; allowing ADUs helps barely at all. If you really want to…
Not a single apartment complex broke ground in San Jose in 2024. Then the city began cutting impact fees & "inclusionary zoning" requirements on a per-project basis. Literally weeks after this happened to a project near the light rail, construction began. It's not rocket science!
The average In-N-Out store manager makes 3X the average software engineer in the UK. And we have idiots here complaining about “late stage capitalism” and other such luxury beliefs. Listen up comrade, it’s you, you’re the problem. Not capitalism.
The average In-N-Out store managers salary is approximately 180,000 in CA.
The entire purpose of socialism is for resentful, downwardly mobile underachievers to blame someone else for their own shortcomings and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.
The entire purpose of capitalism is to exploit the labor of the working class in order to enrich the billionaire class and I’m tired of people pretending otherwise.