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ROSANNE HAGGERTY President, Community Solutions (CS)

Rosanne Haggerty is the President of Community Solutions (CS), a national not-for-pro t organization that grows the capacity of communities to prevent and end homelessness.

The organization is a spino of -based Common Ground, which Haggerty founded in 1990 and built into a leader in the development of supportive housing and other research based practices that end homelessness. Its network of well designed, a ordable apartments — linked to supportive services people need to maintain their housing, restore their health, and regain their economic independence — has enabled more than 4,000 individuals to overcome homelessness. The organization is also credited with ending chronic homelessness in Times Square.

CS brings tested innovations in reducing homelessness to a national scale and advances new models of homelessness prevention and community development. The 100,000 Homes Campaign (www.100khomes.org) is a cornerstone initiative that coordinates the e orts of national organizations and local communities to collectively house 100,000 homeless individuals and families by July of 2013.

Haggerty is a 2001 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, an Ashoka Senior Fellow, and a Hunt Alternatives Fund Prime Mover.

JEROLD S. KAYDEN Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Director, Master in Urban Planning Degree Program, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Jerold S. Kayden, an urban planner and lawyer, is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and the Director of the Master in Urban Planning Degree Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research and teaching center on law and the built environment and on public-private urban development. His books include Privately Owned Public Space: The Experience, Landmark Justice: The In uence of William J. Brennan on America’s Communities, and Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still To Keep. He has written about constitutional law and property rights, smart growth, historic preservation, and market-based regulatory instruments, among other subjects. Since 1991, he has been principal constitutional counsel to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2002, he founded Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space, a non-pro t organization based in New York City whose mission is to improve zoning-created plazas, arcades, and indoor spaces. He earned his undergraduate, law, and city and regional planning degrees from Harvard, and served as law clerk to Judge James L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

ERROL LOUIS Host, “,” NY1

Errol Louis joined NY1 as the host of “Inside City Hall” in November 2010. Prior to joining NY1, Louis was a Daily News columnist who wrote pieces on a range of political and social a airs and also served on the paper’s editorial board. As a leading commentator, he hosted “The Morning Show,” one of the city’s liveliest political talk shows for New York’s political, cultural and business leaders, every weekday on AM1600 WWRL.

In addition to his newspaper and radio work, Louis appeared on NY1 throughout the 2009 New York City election season and is a frequent guest on other local television and radio programs. He has been a CNN contributor since 2008, when he provided expert commentary at key points throughout the presidential campaign, including the Iowa Caucuses, South Carolina primaries, Election Night and the Inauguration.

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