Mayor Mamdani revives controversial Just Home supportive housing project
The Morris Park housing plan aims to provide housing to the formerly incarcerated with medical needs.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his support of the Just Home housing project from the NYC Health + Hospitals Jacobi campus on Monday.
The Morris Park housing plan aims to provide housing to the formerly incarcerated with medical needs.
City leaders say Just Home is designed for people who are too often caught in a cycle moving between jails, shelters, and emergency rooms, without stable housing or medical care.
The housing will be permanent, not a shelter, with every tenant receiving a lease and access to intensive, wrap-around support services.
The Fortune Society will develop and operate the site by providing on-site social workers and peer support to help residents stay housed and healthy.
News 12 previously covered the project when City Council voted in favor of the project back in September.
Soon after that vote, members of former Mayor Eric Adams' administration said they were no longer pursuing the Morris Park location.
Nearby neighbors have expressed concern in the past, asking for assisted housing for their elderly neighbors instead of the formerly incarcerated.
City officials say 87% of supportive housing residents with a history of incarceration have no arrests on their record while living in supportive housing.
