Pathway to Profit Mentally Ill Get Eviction Notices

EXCLUSIVE: Mentally disabled New Yorkers face eviction as Pathways to Housing program fails to pay landlords
Landlords have given 1,300 eviction notices in the last four years to mentally disabled clients of Pathways to Housing, records show.
The nonprofit program is mired in debt and as of February, owed landlords $1.6 million in back rent, with the average payment six months overdue.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
BY GREG B. SMITH
Sunday, September 7, 2014

The group is mired in debt, dropping from a $1 million surplus in 2008 to a $3 million deficit last year, records show. As of February, it owed landlords $1.6 million in back rent, with the average payment six months overdue.

In March, the Office of Mental Health questioned an “excessive number of administrative staff on the payroll,” according to a letter from a department official to Pathways Director Georgia Boothe.

The group’s president, Sam Tsemberis, made nearly $300,000 in 2013. Boothe made $174,000 last year, and four other Pathways executives cleared six figures, including a $182,000-a-year psychiatrist.

The agency also questioned $900,000 in “affiliate fees” Pathways paid itself for two years after it went national in 2011 with no written agreement spelling out what the money was for, documents show.

Thanks for nothing.

Hundreds of mentally disabled New Yorkers have been slapped with eviction notices because a nonprofit that was supposed to arrange their taxpayer-funded housing was not paying their rent, the Daily News has learned.

Landlords have whacked the vulnerable clients of Pathways to Housing with 1,300 eviction notices in the last four years, records show.

Struggling to end this pattern of neglect, the state Office of Mental Health — the primary source of the group’s funding — recently discovered alarming questions about what Pathways has been doing with the millions of taxpayer dollars it has received in the last few years.
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