Jonathan Rose Companies is a real estate policy, urban planning, management, and investment firm. The firm was founded in 1989 and has been a leader in green development, often collaborating with non-profits and municipalities.

Most of its projects have been in the Tri-State area, but it also has built in Colorado and the Pacific Northwest. All told the firm boasts more than $1.5 billion in real estate projects, including low-income housing along the Newark and Passaic River waterfronts and in the South Bronx.

The firm has partnered with leading financial institutions, as well. In 2012 it launched a $75 million housing fund with Citigroup. In 2014 Jonathan Rose and TIAA-CREF joined to launch a $51 million affordable housing preservation fund to purchase mixed-income multifamily properties in certain urban areas, such as Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. In recent years the firm has focused on various areas in Brooklyn to counter the rising rental costs.