NYCHA must be central to Mamdani housing plan

NYCHA must be central to Mamdani housing plan

If you want to understand New York’s housing future, don’t just look at what’s getting built, look at what’s falling apart. The partial collapse at Mitchel Houses in the Bronx earlier this year was a failure of policy more than a failure of construction. NYCHA’s staggering $78 billion capital backlog represents half of the nation’s entire public housing capital need. These dollars represent real consequences for NYCHA residents, like a broken el…