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Joseph Shuldiner (born March 5, 1945) is an American public housing administrator who served as Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He later led the Chicago Housing Authority during its federal receivership in the 1990s and served as executive director of the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers.^[1]

Shuldiner has held senior positions in several of the nation’s largest public housing systems, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Yonkers. Urban Omnibus described him in 2014 as “the only person to have managed housing authorities for all three of the nation’s largest cities.” [1]

Shuldiner was born in 1945 in New York City.^[2] He graduated from Brandeis University and Columbia Law School. He later completed a senior executive fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School.^[2] Early in his career, he worked as a Legal Aid attorney in the Bronx handling landlord–tenant matters before joining the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) in 1973.

After working at HPD, Shuldiner became general manager of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in the 1980s.^[2] He also served as executive director of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, one of the largest local housing authorities in the United States.^[3]

In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed Shuldiner Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing at HUD. In that role, he was responsible for national public housing policy and oversight of federal programs affecting public and tribal housing authorities.^[1]

In May 1995, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), which had been on HUD's list of troubled public housing agencies since 1979 due to persistent fiscal and performance challenges, was placed under federal receivership.^[4][5]

Following the federal takeover, Shuldiner was appointed executive director of CHA. Under his leadership, the authority implemented fiscal and management reforms, improved maintenance practices, and strengthened administrative oversight. In August 1998, HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo announced that CHA had improved sufficiently in living conditions and operational performance to be removed from the troubled list, and a transition process back toward local governance was initiated.^[6]

Shuldiner later became executive director of the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers (MHACY), where he oversaw redevelopment projects and mixed-income housing initiatives.^[3]

In interviews, he advocated for economically integrated housing developments and argued against concentrating poverty in isolated public housing sites.

His work in Yonkers received renewed attention during discussion surrounding the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero, which depicted the city’s public housing desegregation battles.[2]

Shuldiner has advocated for public housing authorities to focus not only on housing provision but also on community building and integration. In interviews, he emphasized the importance of mixed-income developments, resident engagement in planning processes, and the need for innovative funding tools to preserve affordable housing. He has commented on challenges including federal funding declines, housing authority administrative capacity, and community resistance to redevelopment.^[1][7]

In December 2019, Shuldiner was presented with the Clara Fox Award for Outstanding Achievement by the New York Housing Conference in recognition of his decades of service in public and affordable housing administration.^[8]

Shuldiner has been featured in documentary and industry profiles alongside prominent housing figures. In October 2019, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer participated in a Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers production highlighting his leadership and impact on housing policy.^[9]

Shuldiner's parents, Norma Dubitsky Shuldiner and Bernie Shuldiner, were long-time residents of the United Workers Cooperatives in the Bronx, a historic cooperative housing complex established in the early 20th century. They appear in the documentary film At Home in Utopia, part of PBS's Independent Lens series.^[10][11]

His son, Ben Shuldiner (born April 19, 1977), is an educator and school administrator who became superintendent of Seattle Public Schools in 2026.