Rachel Bogardus Drew is a research analyst at the Joint Center for Housing Studies. Her research covers a broad range of topics, including rental and multifamily housing, mortgage market and home buying trends, housing affordability, and the housing patterns and challenges of women. She is also project manager and co-author of the Center’s annual State of the Nation’s Housing Report, and lead researcher on the America’s Rental Housing series. Drew also co-authored a chapter in the book Revisiting Rental Housing (Belsky and Retsinas, eds.). She has produced works for publication by Shelterforce, the Harvard Generations Policy Journal, and the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, and been cited widely in the media including USA Today, Business Week, NPR, the Boston Globe, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Drew has given presentations on housing issues at over a dozen meetings and conferences.  Prior to joining Harvard, Drew worked at National Economic Research Associates in San Francisco as an Analyst in the Telecommunications Regulatory Group, and before that as an Economic Analyst in the Antitrust Practice at Foley and Lardner in Washington D.C. She has a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Dartmouth College.

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