Rosanne Haggerty

Rosanne Haggerty (born 1961) is an American housing and community development leader, and founder of Common Ground Community and later of Community Solutions.[1][2][3] Haggerty redeveloped the Times Square Hotel,[4] a building on the National Register of Historic Places, reducing homelessness by 87 percent in the 20-block neighborhood around it.[5]

Rosanne Haggerty
Born1961 (age 59–60)
EducationAmherst College (BA)
Columbia University (MArch)
New York University

Haggerty attended Amherst College for a bachelor's in American studies, Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for a Master of Architecture, and is a PhD student in sociology at New York University.[6][7][8]

She was an Adelaide Thinker in Residence in Adelaide, Australia.[9] South Australian Premier Mike Rann and Social Inclusion Commissioner David Cappo backed Haggerty's recommendations with a multimillion-dollar investment in inner-city apartment buildings tailor-made for homeless people, establishing Common Ground Adelaide and Street to Home.[10]

Awards and honors

References
Notes
  1. "Homepage | Breaking Ground".
  2. http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/40under40/profiles/1995/1466
  3. "About" on the Community Solutions website
  4. http://www.openingdoorschanginglives.org/pdfs/COFHE.RHaggerty.pdf
  5. "Taking the homeless beyond shelters", Christian Science Monitor, Jina Moore, September 7, 2009
  6. "Columbia News".
  7. "Taxonomy term | Amherst College".
  8. Rosanne Haggerty, Business Week. Executive Profile. By staff. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  9. http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/thinkers/haggerty/
  10. http://www.commongroundadelaide.org.au
  11. http://www.ashoka.org/fellow/4417
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-29. Retrieved 2015-07-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "News Archive".
  14. "Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2015 - Schwab Foundation".
  15. "2015 National Design Award Winners | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum". 5 May 2015.
  16. "Rosanne Haggerty".
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