Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Hahaha, the devils is in the details of this article! A non-profit housing agency was unable to remain solvent because too few people paid rent. So it was forced to evict non-paying tenants (despite promises not to do so) in an attempt to place paying tenants. Those non-paying tenants called the housing department for code violations, and the city took it to heart, and began fining the living bejezus out of an insolvent non-profit, to the tune of $88,000,000. As a result of non-paying tenants, high debt loads and city fines, the non-profit today has less than $100 in the… Read more »
That’s exactly how the story should have been written.
Low income housing programs all become a disaster. They start with beautiful new buildings, but they are destroyed in 5 years. Not the fault of the Better Housing Foundation.