Just 10 days ago, a large group of smart state lawmakers including Sens. Brian Kavanagh and Liz Krueger introduced legislation intended to actually help save the crumbling New York City Housing Authority, its 175,000 apartments and 400,000 tenants. The measure was a welcome step that set the sponsors apart from New York politicians who love bemoaning the sad state of affairs at NYCHA but won’t risk one cent of political capital to actually try fixing its problems, including its broken management culture, byzantine bureaucracy and more than $40 billion in unfunded capital needs.
It’s become fashionable over the last decade or so for city and state politicians to bemoan the pitiful financial state and ever-deteriorating physical condition of the New York City Housing Authority, where arcane bureaucracy and decades of federal disinvestment have left 175,000 apartments and the 400,000 people in them at the mercy of leaks, lead, mold, vermin, broken boilers, broken elevators and broken entry doors.
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