NYC has affordable housing. Manhattan increasingly doesn't, but so what? We have plenty of transit options from the other boros to Manhattan. NYC's biggest cur

NYC has affordable housing. Manhattan increasingly doesn't, but so what? We have plenty of transit options from the other boros to Manhattan. NYC's biggest current problem isn't affordable housing, it is that transit capital projects are grotesquely expensive because of a combination of: diffusion of political responsibility, a broken bidding process, and very strong construction unions. What we have is great, but without the ability to undertake new projects, including rehabilitation, without spending much more time and money than any other city in the world, it will eventually be a big problem.