2016 Samuel Ratensky Lecture: Rosanne Haggerty

The annual Ratensky Lecture was initiated by AIANY’s Housing Committee in honor of Samuel Ratensky (1910-1972), an architect and housing official who was responsible for major housing initiatives in the city from 1946 to 1972, and who served as a mentor to the many architects who worked in his programs. The lecture series honors individuals who, like Sam Ratensky, have made significant lifetime contributions to the advancement of housing and community design.

Speaker: Rosanne Haggerty, President and CEO, Community Solutions

Rosanne Haggerty is President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Solutions. She is an internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness and strengthen communities. Community Solutions assists communities throughout the US in solving the complex problems facing their most vulnerable residents by leading large scale change initiatives including the 100,000 Homes and Zero: 2016 Campaigns to end chronic and veteran homelessness, and neighborhood partnerships that bring together local residents and institutions to change the conditions that produce homelessness and perpetuate poverty. Earlier, Rosanne founded Common Ground Community, a pioneer in the development of supportive housing and research-based practices that end homelessness.

Rosanne is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, an Ashoka Senior Fellow and a Hunt Alternative Fund Prime Mover. In 2012, she was awarded the Jane Jacobs medal for new ideas and activism from the Rockefeller Foundation, and in 2015, she was named a Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 Awardee. She serves on the boards of the Alliance for Veterans, Citizens Housing and Planning Council and Iraq-Afghanistan Veterans of America. She is a Life Trustee of Amherst College.