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Rosanne Haggerty
| Country: | United States |
| Region: | North America |
| Field Of Work: | Civic Engagement |
| Subsectors: | Housing, Urban Development |
| Target Population: | Homeless |
| Organization: | Common Ground |
| Year Elected: | 2007 |
Homelessness can be ended for less than is currently spent on perpetual crisis response. Rosanne Haggerty is showing how that can be achieved, by strategically linking chronically homeless individuals with stable housing and personalized support plans. Through Common Ground, her organization identifies the chronically homeless within their communities and then works to finance an effective alternative housing system. She has created over 1,800 housing units and another 3,000 are in development. Together they represent a variety of forms, settings and support arrangements that can respond to the range of individual circumstances and needs encountered among the homeless. This focused strategy lifts vulnerable people out of homelessness, dramatically reduces the presence of homeless people living in public spaces, and in the process reduces the demand on emergency services and redirects resources to where they belong: creating additional supported housing to end homelessness.
