Rosanne Haggerty (born 1961) is an American housing and community development leader, and founder of
Common Ground Community and later of
Community Solutions. Haggerty redeveloped the
Times Square Hotel, a building on the
National Register of Historic Places
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, reducing homelessness by 87 percent in the 20-block neighborhood around it.
Haggerty attended
Amherst College for a bachelor's in American studies,
Columbia University
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's
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Master of Architecture
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, and is a PhD student in sociology at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, th ...
.
She was an Adelaide Thinker in Residence in
Adelaide, Australia. 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.
Awards and honors
*1998
Peter Drucker Award
*2001
MacArthur Fellows Program
*2003 Honorary Doctorate from
Amherst College
*2007
Ashoka Fellowship
*2008
Goto Shimpei Award
*2012
Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism
*2015
Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur
*2015
Design Mind by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award
*2017 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from
Emmanuel College (Massachusetts)
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*2017 John W. Gardner Leadership Award
References
;Notes
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
1961 births
Amherst College alumni
Ashoka USA Fellows
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni
Homelessness activists
Living people
MacArthur Fellows
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