Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program — CFDA 14.195

What $42.99 billion on 55,927 awards records

Assistance listing 14.195 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS PROGRAM in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $42,989,675,197.42. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $42,989,675,197.42 as rent already paid on project-based contracts mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

55,927 awards sit under that dollar book—a high record count. Dividing $42,989,675,197.42 by 55,927 produces a mean near $769,000 per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical unit subsidy and not a contract rent. Project-based assistance often writes many contract actions, which is why 55,927 records can coexist with $42,989,675,197.42.

14,968 recipients across 55 states

CFDA 14.195 lists 14,968 recipients and 55 states against 55,927 awards. Recipient count is not unique tenants. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing—owners, agents, and related organizations in the file, not a household census. 14,968 is among the larger recipient totals in this packet set. The 55-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every building.

Because both award volume and recipient volume are high, extra contract renewals can lift the 55,927 tally without moving $42,989,675,197.42 much. The Housing Assistance Payments hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another. Repeat contract years increment the award count.

Obligations versus HAP outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $42,989,675,197.42 figure for CFDA 14.195 can include commitments that will disburse later. HUD project-based contract reports and a single fiscal year’s housing appropriation are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 14.195 program page. Do not stretch 55,927 awards or 14,968 recipients to cover every rental-assistance dollar that touches a property.

What the 14.195 tables omit

The Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a tenant roster, not a REAC inspection file, and not a contract-rent register. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $42,989,675,197.42. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 55,927 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 55 states is a coding field. An owner coded to one cell can dominate geography while properties sit in many ZIP codes. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 14.195

A complete citation is $42,989,675,197.42 in obligations for CFDA 14.195, covering 55,927 awards, 14,968 recipients, and 55 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is owner volume rather than dollars, lead with 14,968 recipients and 55,927 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a contract-renewal instruction.

A worked reading of the 14.195 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $42,989,675,197.42, 55,927 awards, 14,968 recipients, and 55 states under CFDA 14.195. The mean near $769,000 is a quotient from a high award count, not a contract rent. If a later USAspending.gov file adds many contract renewals, 55,927 can rise while dollars barely move. If a few large project actions post, $42,989,675,197.42 can jump without a matching jump in 14,968 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits new construction from preservation contracts, or tenant-paid rent from HAP. Those cuts live in HUD publications. Treat CFDA 14.195 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 14,968 organizational recipients so the figure is not read as a tenant census.

Readers comparing CFDA 14.195 across extracts should keep the 55,927-award count and the 14,968-recipient count in the same sentence as $42,989,675,197.42. Dropping either volume fact turns the obligation total into a floating headline. SpendingVault’s program hub is the place to verify that the current file still carries those four packet facts across 55 states.

Questions

How much is obligated under the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $42,989,675,197.42 in obligations for CFDA 14.195. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of assisted units. The same extract lists 55,927 awards, 14,968 recipients, and 55 states.

Are the 14,968 recipients tenants?

No. The 14,968 figure is organizational recipients stored on USAspending.gov assistance rows for CFDA 14.195, not a household headcount. Award volume is 55,927 records. The $42,989,675,197.42 total is still an obligation sum, not a per-unit subsidy published on this page.

Does the HAP total include rent already paid to owners?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $42,989,675,197.42 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 55,927-award count is a record tally, not a count of monthly HAP checks. Cite CFDA 14.195 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 14.195?

The extract codes 55 states for the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every property. Those rows still sit under the $42,989,675,197.42 obligation total and the 14,968-recipient count.