Urban Pathways, Inc.



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		Urban Pathways Awarded a Deutsche Bank Share IV Grant to Build New Supportive Housing Deutsche Bank's Americas Foundation, a philanthropic arm of Deutsche Bank in the United States has awarded Urban Pathways a three-year, $225,000 Share IV Grant. One of 12 recipients, Urban Pathways is working to create over 200 units of affordable and supportive housing. The award will both support the development of these units and the capacity of the organization to better grow its pipeline of activity. To read the press release, click here.


		Young Professionals Board Organizes a Holiday Drive This year's holiday gift bag program exceeded all expectations. The Urban Pathways Young Professionals Board (YPB) solicited in-kind gifts and monetary donations in order to prepare 1,000 bags for clients at the organization's drop-in centers and supportive housing facilities. Each bag, tied with festive ribbon, contained some combination of hats, scarves, socks and gloves along with toiletries and other goodies. Members worked late into the night to ensure that every Urban Pathways client would receive a gift. For more photos, click here.

Urban Pathways Secures Commitments to Fulfill its Goal of Developing 200 Units of New Supportive Housing

Last year Urban Pathways implemented a "housing first" approach through our outreach and drop-in center programs. Our goal is to insure single adults move rapidly and directly into housing from the street. We recently converted The Travelers Hotel from a transitional shelter to a Safe Haven to support this approach, recognizing that offering a safe place to sleep will serve as a stabilizing factor which will both improve clients' baseline standard of living and lead to the consideration of permanent housing options.

To ensure that clients who are willing to accept permanent housing have a place to live and to support the City's plan to reduce chronic homelessness by two-thirds, we established a goal of developing 200 new units of supportive housing. Over the past 12 months, UP has worked aggressively to fulfill this vision; we are pleased to now report 201 units will be in development in 2008.

To date, our work to fulfill this goal include:

Purchasing a vacant lot on Hughes Avenue in the South Bronx where we will develop a 55-unit supportive housing residence for New Yorkers who are seriously and persistently mentally ill; we will begin construction no later than the spring of 2008. Construction costs and program operations will be funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB).
Receiving approval and a funding commitment from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to develop 26 scattered site apartments for homeless New Yorker with a dual diagnosis (substance abuse history and a mental health condition.) We are currently conducting a site search and anticipate launching the program this year.
Receiving a set-aside (funding commitment) from OMH to develop at least 60-unit supportive housing residence for New Yorkers who are seriously and persistently mentally ill. We are currently conducting a site search and anticipate gaining site control in 2008.
Received a set-aside (funding commitment) from DOHMH to develop a 60-unit supportive housing residence for New Yorkers who are seriously and persistently mentally ill.

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