The New York City Council voted on Thursday to override Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of a bill stopping a potential rent hike for thousands of low-income New Yorkers who use city assistance to help cover housing costs.

It’s the latest dispute between the Council and Adams over the growing number of New Yorkers relying on the CityFHEPS voucher program, which, like Section 8, subsidizes rent for low-income tenants.

It’s one of the nation’s largest rental subsidy programs: More than 60,000 New York families rely on the program to pay rent each month, while another 10,000 approved households are waiting in shelters, per city data.

Qualifying participants are required to pay 30% of their income toward rent, which the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development uses as the limit before a

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