This week in the Bronx, part of a NYCHA building collapsed — a horrifying reminder that New York City’s public housing is quite literally falling apart.

Our city faces many urgent challenges, but none are more pressing than our affordable housing shortage and the crisis plaguing our public housing system. What happened in the Bronx was not an isolated incident — it was the predictable result following decades of neglect and disinvestment. And unless we act with urgency and creativity, we risk further tragedies occurring.

If we are going to confront New York’s affordability crisis, we must think bigger and move faster than we have every before, because we’ve simply run out of time.

Nearly a century ago, New York led the nation in creating public housing with NYCHA in 1934 — the first in

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