NYC Council overrides Mayor Adams' veto of rental assistance bills in major rebuke

Mayor Adams suffered a stinging political setback Thursday as the City Council overrode his veto of a package of bills aimed at vastly expanding a rental assistance program for low-income New Yorkers. The override action — which marks the first time the Council has quashed a mayoral veto in a decade — enacts the package despite Adams’ opposition, effective in 180 days. “New Yorkers need us to ...

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