Breaking Ground

Breaking Ground is a nonprofit social services organization in New York city

whose goal is to create high quality permanent and transitional housing for the

homeless. Its philosophy holds that supportive housing costs substantially  less

than homeless shelters and much less time than jail cells or hospital rooms

and that people with psychiatric or other problems can better manage than once

they are permanently housed and provided with services.

Since its founding in 1990 by Rosanne Haggerty, the organization has created

more than 5000 units of housing for the homeless.

” This is about creating a small town rather than just a building” according to Haggerty