Sarah Gerecke is a principal at SSG Community Solutions, where she designs program and policy responses to complex affordable housing and community development challenges. An adjunct professor of urban planning for New York University, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on leadership and management, public management, land use, housing, and community development.  She is also a non-resident fellow at the Urban Institute, where she does housing program analysis and evaluation on topics including factory-built housing and housing finance.

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From 2011–2019, Gerecke was deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Housing Counseling at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, where her responsibilities included programs to increase access to affordable, quality housing and mortgages, and initiatives to help families improve their financial and housing conditions.

From 2009 to 2011, Gerecke was executive director of New York University’s Furman Center, a leading academic research center. From 2001 until 2009, Gerecke was chief executive officer of Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City, where she supervised lending, education, and real estate programs that assisted over 10,000 city residents each year. She has held leadership positions for a homeless housing provider in Westchester County, NY, and appointed positions in New York City government under Mayors Koch and Dinkins with responsibilities for major revitalization projects in Harlem, the South Bronx, and central Brooklyn.

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Gerecke is a board member of New York City’s Residential Mortgage Insurance Corporation.  She is a member of the Supreme Court bar, the New York State bar, and a graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University.