BZA members voted 4 to 1 at their latest monthly meeting on Jan. 13 to grant Prosperity Counseling a special exception, allowing a transitional housing program with integrated mental health services where a sober home currently operates. According to Tyson, the program will fill an existing gap within New Haven’s network of addiction counseling services. (Prosperity House is a nonprofit affiliate of Prosperity Counseling.) The program is “different from a sober house, because a sober house does not inherently include these programmatic features,” Zachariah said. For instance, she pointed to a term “mental health care facility,” which was used to describe the Prosperity Counseling home in zoning agendas and meeting notices.