Nathan Shultz

Nathan A. (Nate) Shultz serves as Chief of Staff for the Office of Housing – Federal Housing Administration at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In this capacity, he provides leadership and strategic direction for all Office of Housing programs. This includes directing policy and programmatic activities for the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Single Family, Multifamily and Healthcare mortgage insurance programs, which insure approximately $1.3 trillion in mortgages serving more than 7.6 million homeowners, some 890,000 renters, and approximately 4,000 healthcare facilities across the U.S. and its territories.

Mr. Shultz also oversees other Office of Housing programs, including HUD’s multifamily assisted housing portfolio which serves more than 1.2 million low-income residents, HUD’s housing counseling program that provides funding and oversight for more than 1,500 housing counseling agencies and 4,000 HUD-certified housing counselors throughout the country, and a manufactured housing program which sets standards and provides oversight for the construction and installation of homes that house more than 20 million households.

This is Mr. Shultz’s second leadership role at HUD, having previously served during the tenure of HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. Prior to rejoining HUD, Mr. Shultz most recently led Fannie Mae’s single family Affordable Housing Preservation work under the Duty to Serve initiative. He has also held leadership roles at mortgage lender and servicer TMS and the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority.