Jose Tur

[Jose Tur @josemtur7]

My grandfather escaped communism in Cuba, never spoke a word of English, and still survived one of the hardest stretches this city has ever seen for landlords — the abandonment crisis of the 1970s. Now the same policies are back, dressed up as relief. This freeze doesn't hit the landlords the city thinks it's fighting. It hits small owners like us, and in the end it hurts everyone. Thank you for telling our story, @LLBiggers and @TheFP.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

New York City’s rent freeze sounds compassionate—until you meet the landlords barely hanging on.

@LLBiggers interviews a landlord whose grandfather fled Castro’s Cuba and spent a lifetime building a future in New York.

Now, government housing policies threaten to destroy everything he built.

[Jose Tur @josemtur7]

@CnDelarosa This is exactly why we need reform and better policies, this continues to happen and people in the community are fed up. This is why business owners continue to leave the community, like my brother in law who owned a barbershop on 207th street.

[Jose Tur @josemtur7]

New York has run this experiment before. Through the 1970s, rents were held down while inflation and fuel costs climbed. The math stopped working. Landlords didn’t fight, didn’t lobby, didn’t post about it — they just walked away. By 1979, the city had taken ownership of an estimated 100,000 apartments that owners had abandoned outright. That’s the year my grandfather, a Cuban immigrant no bank would lend to, bought his building anyway — while half the city was giving buildings like it away for free.

We’re running the same experiment again. Last night, the Rent Guidelines Board froze rents on one- and two-year leases for the first time in the city’s history. Its own data shows operating costs for buildings like ours rose 5.3% this year, outpacing inflation. That gap between flat revenue and rising costs doesn’t disappear because a board votes on it. It gets paid eventually — in deferred repairs, in deferred taxes, in a building somebody eventually decides isn’t worth the fight anymore.

This isn’t relief. It’s the first chapter of a story this city has already finished once. Nobody abandons a building because they’re cruel. They abandon it because the math stops working and there’s no one left to argue with. Our leaders are betting that tenants won’t notice the difference between a short-term political win and a long-term collapse — until the buildings start showing it, the way they did the last time anyone tried this. @CnDelarosa @SenatorRJackson @NYCMayor @AMDeLosSantos72 @TheRealSPONY @housingny @GovKathyHochul

[Jose Tur @josemtur7]

This is a huge loss for small landlords like us in District 10, serving our community since 1979. Freezing rents while RGB data shows costs rising 5%+ neglects reality. We live on-property, handle repairs in-house and we're barely getting by. We need real policy solutions—not band-aids.

[Jose Tur @josemtur7]

Well said

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

In 2026, residents of every major city should understand this simple truth:

Crime and squalor are choices.

Policies exist that can both be compassionate but put the rights and quality of life of the tax paying and law abiding above everything and everyone else.

It’s not as crazy as it sounds.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction. 300+ local bills filed. Half of planned 2026 data centers facing delays or cancellation. Each one brings billions to local economies.

The people who say they want American jobs are trying to block the biggest job creation engine since the interstate highway system.

[Manhattan Institute @ManhattanInst]

"New York City spends roughly $37 billion/year to educate about 850,000 kids. That's over $42,000 per child per year. And the results are abysmal.

Two-thirds of fourth graders can't do math properly and almost three-quarters can't read at grade level...

...What we can do, Mr. Mayor, is tell every mom in NYC that the $42,000 currently spent on that terrible education is going to be her money."

Jeff Yass, one of the 2026 Alexander Hamilton Award honorees, on how we can solve NYC's education crisis through school choice.

[Ann Korchak @amkorchak]

The hypocrisy around the second homes is astounding

“ But the city’s historic housing crisis isn’t caused by the relatively few $5 million-plus units used as second homes. There is, in fact, a much bigger underuse problem: thousands of unlawful rent-stabilized pieds-à-terre, the tenants of which pay rock-bottom rates for their second home. New York City is thus poised to tax unsubsidized second homes more while continuing to underwrite their subsidized counterparts”

[Handre @Handre]

The Japanese railway privatization of 1987 stands as one of the most devastating defeats ever dealt to statist transportation mythology. The government split the bloated Japan National Railways into seven regional companies, sold them off, and watched private ownership transform a bankruptcy-bound disaster into the world's most efficient rail system.

JNR hemorrhaged money for decades before privatization. By 1987, the state railway carried debt equivalent to $200 billion in today's money while delivering mediocre service plagued by strikes and inefficiency. Politicians treated it as a jobs program rather than a transportation service. The predictable result: chronic losses, deteriorating infrastructure, and customer service that reflected government monopoly arrogance.

Private ownership changed everything overnight. The new JR companies slashed operating costs by 40% within five years while dramatically improving service quality. JR East alone now generates annual profits exceeding $3 billion. These companies invest billions in cutting-edge technology, maintain punctuality rates above 99%, and operate the world's most advanced high-speed rail networks. They achieved this without a single yen of operational subsidies.

The transformation reveals a core dynamic of transportation infrastructure: private companies must satisfy customers to survive, while government monopolies need only satisfy politicians. JR companies diversified into real estate, retail, and hospitality around their stations, creating integrated profit centers that cross-subsidize rail operations. Government railways never innovate this way because bureaucrats face no market pressure to generate returns.

Meanwhile, Amtrak burns through $2 billion in annual subsidies while delivering third-world service across most routes, and European state railways require massive taxpayer bailouts every few years to stay solvent.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The #1 factor that determines whether you succeed in life is you. It isn’t “the patriarchy.” It isn’t the Jews. It isn’t the Muslims. It isn’t the billionaires. It isn’t the foreigners. It isn’t white people. It isn’t black people. It's time for us to move on from victimhood culture in America.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Exposing California's corrupt "Stop Nick Shirley Act", instead of going after the fraudsters California is now going after the people exposing the fraud.

This bill AB 2624 will:
- Criminalize journalists with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown
- Let immigrant based NGOs' funding be confidential
- Take away freedom of the press from journalists
- Protect any "immigration support services" information from being public (healthcare, legal services, etc)

This bill was created by the Attorney General's WIFE Mia Bonta to stop fraud from being exposed. Please like and share this video everywhere! By trying to silence and intimidate journalists, they are trying to hide the truth from you. EXPOSE ALL THE FRAUD.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

College admissions decisions are coming out.

A lot of brilliant people are about to be told they don't fit the profile.

Their admissions system is a flawed filter, ours is not.

We are adding two more slots to the Fall 2026 Meritocracy Fellowship.

Good luck.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is great.

At least those judges who release violent criminals who go on to hurt more people will be publicly shamed!

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Socialism relies on the poor

To justify its existence

So it perpetuates poverty

[Jose Tur @josemtur7]

@RepEspaillat Do your job and fund the government, that's why the people elected you.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

NYC is now spending $81,000 per homeless person

The average median household income is $81,000 for a New Yorker

You work hard and receive nothing in return while the homeless receive your entire paycheck for free

Stop the waste and fraud.

[Daniel S. Loeb @DanielSLoeb1]

3,171 if the inheritance tax is approved.