Bringing down the house

First, the good news: Higher and higher go Mayor de Blasio’s towering affordable housing ambitions. That first-term promise to build or preserve 200,000 apartments? Tuesday, he announced he’s now gunning for 300,000. Now imagine what affordable housing feats New York City could achieve if de Blasio had a functional City Council to work with.

You’ll have to imagine — because the Council we’ve got is about as useful to the effort as a pile of bricks without mortar. All because Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito allows each member a veto over projects proposed in their districts — no matter how urgent the need or how foul the objection.

For reasons as varied as the winds, Council members have already killed or forestalled rezonings with the potential to produce thousands of affordable units.

Now comes Brooklyn’s Darlene Mealy, who outrageously, unapologetically refuses to OK a residence designed to enable homeless people to move out of shelters.

Never mind that the local community board, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and the City Planning Commission all voted up Edwin’s Place as a winner — rebirthing a lot vacant for a half-century, putting it in the capable hands of the supportive housing developer Breaking Ground and East Brooklyn Congregations.

If and when Edwin’s Place opens, 56 men and women and two dozen families formerly living in homeless shelters will not only have their own apartments but get services to make sure their lives stay on track.

Mealy is now their enemy. Smearing the venerable supportive housing developer as “a homeless shelter program” and falsely suggesting residents would roam the streets unaided, Mealy made clear at a Tuesday City Council hearing that “I have an issue with the demographic.”

Revised plans with an additional 47 apartments for low-income families swayed her not an inch. If only the developers could wait until the term-limited Mealy gets safely out of the way come Jan. 1 — but that would mean forgoing $7 million in state funds needed to provide residents with services.

Watch the entire Council now cave to the antipathy of one lame duck Council member, derailing homes and hope for hundreds.

Better yet: Another lame-duck Council member, Mark-Viverito, should finally draw the line. The good of the city must come before the unprincipled resistance of a craven NIMBY.