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] Haggerty redeveloped the Times Square Hotel,^[3] a building on the National Register of Historic Places, reducing homelessness by 87 percent in the 20-block neighborhood around it.^[4]

Rosanne Haggerty
Born	1961 (age 63–64)
Education	Amherst 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.^[5][6][7]

She was an Adelaide Thinker in Residence in Adelaide, Australia.^[8] 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.^[9]

Awards and honors

• 1998 Peter Drucker Award
• 2001 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2003 Honorary Doctorate from Amherst College
• 2007 Ashoka Fellowship^[10]
• 2008 Goto Shimpei Award^[11]
• 2012 Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism ^[12]
• 2015 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur^[13]
• 2015 Design Mind by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award^[14]
• 2017 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Emmanuel College (Massachusetts)
• 2017 John W. Gardner Leadership Award ^[15]