In a dramatic reversal, Mayor Adams’ administration moved Thursday to kill a controversial plan to build a housing complex in the Bronx for former inmates with serious health issues that has sparked deep controversy.

Instead, Adams’ new effort would involve finding a new, unidentified location for the project, though it was unclear Thursday whether his administration can actually stop the “Just Home” plan, which is designed to create more than 80 affordable apartments on the Jacobi Hospital campus in Morris Park.

The City Council, which had just started its hearing on the plan when the Adams administration announced its reversal, is expected to move forward with voting through the project, according to sources in the chamber.

The turnaround comes after the Daily News first reported e

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