The New Mandate: First, Find them a Home

Homeless in Philadelphia: Second of three parts

By Jennifer Lin and Joseph A. Slobodzian
Inquirer Staff Writers

Deborah Harmon, 43 and mentally ill, was released from jail for panhandling, and again faced living on the streets or in a shelter.

Runell McKnight, 25, had no place to go with her two young children after she broke up with the man she was living with.

Today, both women have apartments of their own, with each a beneficiary of programs that aggressively promote the notion that, above all, the homeless need homes.

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