Rachel Bogardus Drew

Rachel Bogardus Drew is Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, leading the Center’s work on the adaptation and preservation of existing housing. Dr. Drew has more than two decades of experience in housing research across the public, private, and academic sectors. She has deep expertise in a wide range of housing-related issues including housing affordability, demographic trends, the aging housing stock, and strategies for post-disaster housing market resilience and recovery. 

Rachel began her career in housing research at the Center, spending seven years as a research analyst and leading the teams that produced the State of the Nation’s Housing and America’s Rental Housing reports. Prior to rejoining the Center, she was the Senior Research Director in the Policy Development and Research group at Enterprise Community Partners. In that role, she led numerous initiatives aligned with Enterprise’s federal policy and strategic priorities, including serving as Principal Investigator on a HUD-funded research study on equitable strategies for repairing housing supplies post-disasters and co-managing the development of an edited volume on community-based solutions for advancing climate resilience in housing and infrastructure. Among her many publications, she has contributed chapters in the edited volumes Introduction to Housing, 3rd Edition (Routledge), Revisiting Rental Housing (Brookings), and The Political Economy of Financial Crises (Oxford).

Rachel holds PhD and Masters degrees in Public Policy from the University of Massachusetts-Boston and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.