Breaking Ground
Building Location Number of units
The Dorothy Ross Friedman ( formerly The Aurora ) Midtown Manhattan 178
Cedarwoods Willimantic , CT 56
The Christopher Chelsea , Manhattan 207
The Domenech Brownsville , Brooklyn 72
Eastman Commons Rochester , NY 80
The Hegeman Brownsville , Brooklyn 161
The Lee Lower East Side , Manhattan 263
The Prince George Midtown Manhattan 416
The Times Square Times Square , Manhattan 652
The Schermerhorn Downtown Brooklyn , New York 217
The Andrews The Bowery , Manhattan 146
The Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Foundation Center Hartford , CT 70
The Brook South Bronx 190
Boston Road Morrisania 154
The Lenniger ( owned by CUCS ) Tremont 92
40 Riverside Upper West Side 55
The Sydelle ( owned by CUCS ) Belmont 102
Redwood Senior Living ( owned by EBC ) East New York 80
Park House Tremont 248
Webster Residence Tremont 171
Current residences
The Times Square Hotel The Prince George The Christopher As of 2019 Breaking Ground has 24 buildings with 4,103 units . [ 19 ]
Breaking Ground, formerly Common 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 many times less than jail cells or hospital rooms, and that people with psychiatric and other problems can better manage them once they are permanently housed and provided with services. Since its founding in 1990 by Rosanne Haggerty, the organization has created more than 5,000 units of housing for the homeless. This is about creating a small town, rather than just a building, according to Haggerty. It's about a real mixed society, working with many different people. Haggerty left the organization in 2011 to found Community Solutions, Inc. Brenda Rosen was promoted from Director, Housing Operations and Programs to Executive Director, and has led the organization since. Breaking Ground began by rehabilitating the Times Square Hotel (located at 8th Avenue and 43rd) Street, which opened in 1991. It went on to restore other historic properties including the Prince George Hotel, opened in 1999. In the late 2000s and continuing today, Breaking Ground has expanded into new construction, bringing to fruition a total of 15 residences, with another 1,000 units in various stages of development. In Australia, following a report by Haggerty to the South Australian Government, Premier Mike Rann and Social Inclusion Commissioner David Cappo backed Haggerty's recommendations with a multimillion-dollar investment in inner city apartment buildings. Common Ground Adelaide and Street to Home were established and have now been adopted in other Australian States.