Executive Summary

​A Home Is A Right (AHARI) was founded in 2011 by Stephanie Booker to provide all homeless veterans and their families with permanent supportive housing options.  Stephanie founded AHARI during her Master’s Program at Eastern University in 2011.  Stephanie has a history with chemical dependency, homelessness, and depression.  However, she acquired the tools needed to successfully live a productive lifestyle.  She has 28 years of recovery and is a community activist with relationships in the political, social services, LGBTQ, Gender Non-Conformance and Veteran communities.

​Stephanie’s past experiences have given her the passion to assist the homeless population.  After working in the transitional housing field for over 10 years, she decided to take on the Veterans at-risk and homeless population.  AHARI has been collaborating with the Veteran Multi-Service Center in Philadelphia for the last 24 months. AHARI provides home cooked meals to the Vets once a month; provide clothing, and personal items necessary for their personal hygiene.  Stephanie has also housed Vets in her private rental homes.  AHARI is currently seeking partnerships, funding, volunteers and sponsors to assist with funding, properties and/or collaborating to allow AHARI to provide permanent supportive housing.

Since March 2020, Stephanie has helped secure over $95K in funding and in-kind donations for AHARI including PA Housing Finance Agency, SBA PPP, Disaster Relief, Juvia's Place, U-Haul, Costco, Walmart, Herrs, Bambos Socks, Share, Caring for Friends, Philabundance, Boscovs, Pay-It-Forward, and more.
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AHARI’s goal is to obtain brick and mortar funding to build AHARI Village to house 10-12 veterans and their families and have a central location to provide supportive programming that helps our veterans become self-sufficient. There will be volunteer, internship, and employment opportunities for the veterans that successfully complete the program.