The City Council approved a plan Thursday to build a housing complex in the Bronx for former inmates with serious health issues in spite of opposition from Mayor Adams , whose team said the vote is moot and the project won’t move forward.
The “ Just Home ” plan — which proposes creating more than 80 affordable and supportive apartments for ex-inmates with serious health problems on the Jacobi Hospital campus in Morris Park — sailed through the Council in a 36-9 vote, with three abstensions. With the Council authorization in the books, the next step would typically be for the project’s developer, the Fortune Society, to start preparing for construction.
But the mayor’s team says that won’t happen.
Instead, Randy Mastro, Adams’ first deputy mayor, said ahead of the vote that the adm