Nearly a century ago, New York led the nation in creating public housing with NYCHA in 1934 — the first in the country. NYCHA still dwarfs every other public housing system in North America, with over 179,000 apartments housing nearly 400,000 New Yorkers. Unlike subway failures that go viral on social media, conditions inside public housing remain largely invisible to most New Yorkers. Just as we set the standard for building public housing, we can set the standard for its renewal. We can either continue down this path of decay and Band-Aid fixes, or we seize this moment to rebuild a public housing system worthy of New Yorkers.