Overview
- City Hall said it will no longer oppose the Jacobi campus conversion, restarting a plan stalled after last year’s political fight.
- City Council approved the land-use plan in September after a late push by the prior administration to relocate the project and local objections led by the then-district councilmember.
- The development will create 83 apartments, including 58 supportive units, with the remainder reserved for low-income tenants.
- Tenants will be formerly incarcerated people with serious medical conditions; Fortune Society will screen applicants and exclude anyone deemed a current risk of violence and those without adjudicated cases.
- Officials tied the site to Justice-Involved Supportive Housing funding, with $1 million annually reported for Just Home and an updated Housing for Health RFP expected to add capacity for justice-involved New Yorkers.