{"id":106397,"date":"2026-01-20T21:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106397\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:39:24","slug":"mamdani-reverses-adams-revives-controversial-bronx-housing-program-for-sick-former-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106397\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani reverses Adams, revives controversial Bronx housing program for sick former inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Mamdani has revived the controversial \u201cJust Home\u201d project in the Bronx, reversing the Adams administration\u2019s attempt last year to nix the controversial project.<\/p>\n

The project, at a vacant Jacobi Hospital building<\/a> in Morris Park, is slated to provide supportive and affordable housing, mostly for people who were formerly incarcerated and with serious medical issues. The nonprofit Fortune Society will operate the site.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not simply creating 83 new apartments and supporting those who are struggling, we are advancing the cause of justice,\u201d Mamdani said at an MLK Jr. Day press conference Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a project which will provide a rent-stabilized lease to every single tenant, and it will prove that our commitment to homeless New Yorkers, and those who need supportive housing, is anything but abstract. It is tangible and it is actionable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neighbors in the area railed for years against the plan, which was initially proposed and long-defended by the Adams administration. Despite that, Adams abruptly reversed course<\/a> in September, announcing he would try to kill the project by moving it to a different location.<\/p>\n

The attempted cancelling of the project came after his first deputy mayor, Randy Mastro, started looking for ways to block the project earlier that month<\/a>, as first reported by the Daily News.<\/p>\n

Despite the attempts to disrupt the plan, \u201cJust Home\u201d received formal approval from the City Council in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow, what a great mayor we have and what an amazing commitment,\u201d Health + Hospitals President and CEO Mitchell Katz said at the announcement.<\/p>\n

A former senior official in the Adams administration defended Adams\u2019 reversal on \u201cJust Home,\u201d telling the Daily News that Mamdani\u2019s decision to revert to the original plan means throwing away progress made on an alternative housing site identified by the Adams administration in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could have been a win-win,\u201d said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani has revived the controversial \u201cJust Home\u201d project in the Bronx, reversing the Adams administration\u2019s attempt last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,267,9,24,10,692,12,63,87,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-106397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}