The New York City Council is set to override a mayoral veto for the first time in a decade Thursday to push through a series of measures that will nix the waiting period of the Big Apple’s ho…
The New York City Council is set to override a mayoral veto on Thursday that will nix the waiting period of the Big Apple’s housing voucher program and expand its eligibility criteria.broke out his veto stamp in June in an attempt to block of the legislation, complaining that lawmakers had overstepped their authority and that the package could cost the cash-strapped city billions of dollars.
“We will override this veto and I hope Mayor Adams is listening right now — you cannot lead the greatest city on earth and deny people the right to housing,” said Councilwoman Carlina Rivera at a rally outside of City Hall just hours before the votes are expected to be cast. Amid the fight, City Hall eventually embraced that policy change and implemented it as a tweak to municipal regulations through the mayor’s executive powers.“[W]e had several conversations with the council and really tried to show them why the existing legislation that they pushed forward was problematic,” the mayor told reporters Tuesday at an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn.
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