The City Council is expected later this week to approve a plan to build a housing complex in the Bronx for ex-inmates with serious health issues, bucking a last-ditch effort from Mayor Adams’ administration to block the project.

The “Just Home” plan would pave the way for more than 80 affordable and supportive housing units to be built on the Jacobi Hospital campus in Morris Park. Under the plan, which is being overseen by the city’s NYC Health + Hospitals public hospital system, the apartments would be set aside for ex-inmates suffering from serious health issues, like stage 4 cancer.

After supporting the plan for years, Adams had an abrupt change of heart earlier this month as his first deputy mayor, Randy Mastro, started trying to find ways to block the project, as first reported

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