The Mamdani administration has committed to continuing City Hall’s court fight against a set of 2023 City Council laws passed to expand the city’s rental assistance program, reversing a campaign trail promise to drop the suit and allow the laws to come into effect.
In its filing late Tuesday to bring the case before the New York Court of Appeals — the state’s highest court — Mamdani’s Law Department has picked up the same legal argument used by ex-Mayor Eric Adams — that the council didn’t have the legal authority to expand the program, known as CityFHEPS.
