Rosanne Haggerty

Rosanne Haggerty
Rosanne Haggerty
Born	1961 (age 60–61)
Education	Amherst College (BA); Columbia University (MArch); New York University

Rosanne Haggerty (born 1961) is an American housing and community development leader, and founder of Common Ground Community and later of .^[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]

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[]

1998 Peter Drucker Award
2001 MacArthur Fellows Program
2003 Honorary Doctorate from Amherst College
2007 Ashoka Fellowship^[11]
2008 Goto Shimpei Award^[12]
2012 Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism ^[13]
2015 ^[14]
2015 ^[15]
2017 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Emmanuel College (Massachusetts)
2017 John W. Gardner Leadership Award ^[16]

References[]

Notes

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

External links[]

"An interview with Rosanne Haggerty of Common Ground Community". Shelterforce, Issue #125, September/October 2002
"Q&A: Why Houses Cost Less Than Homelessness", Good, Kyla Fullenwider, February 9, 2010

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[1] "Homepage | Breaking Ground".

[2] ttp://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/40under40/profiles/1995/1466

[3] "About" on the Community Solutions website

[4] ttp://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] ttp://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/thinkers/haggerty/

[10] ttp://www.commongroundadelaide.org.au

[11] ttp://www.ashoka.org/fellow/4417

[12] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-29. Retrieved 2015-07-23.{{cite web}}: 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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