Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers — CFDA 14.871 obligations

What $84.05 billion on 126,356 awards records

Assistance listing 14.871 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $84,048,612,579.28. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $84,048,612,579.28 as rent already paid to landlords mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

126,356 awards sit under that dollar book—a high record count. Dividing $84,048,612,579.28 by 126,356 produces a mean near $665,000 per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical voucher payment standard and not a per-household subsidy. Housing authorities often receive many incremental actions, which is why 126,356 records can coexist with $84,048,612,579.28.

2,097 recipients across 55 states

CFDA 14.871 lists 2,097 recipients and 55 states against 126,356 awards. Recipient count is not unique tenants. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing—typically public housing agencies. 2,097 is not a headcount of voucher holders. The 55-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every unit.

Because award volume is high relative to the 2,097-recipient count, many agencies appear on repeated actions. Extra increments can lift the 126,356 tally without moving $84,048,612,579.28 much. The Housing Choice Voucher hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus housing outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $84,048,612,579.28 figure for CFDA 14.871 can include commitments that will disburse later. HUD voucher utilization 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 14.871 program page. Do not stretch 126,356 awards or 2,097 recipients to cover every rental-assistance dollar that touches a metro area.

What the 14.871 tables omit

The Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a tenant roster, not a wait-list file, and not a rent-reasonableness study. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $84,048,612,579.28. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 126,356 award rows.

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

How to cite CFDA 14.871

A complete citation is $84,048,612,579.28 in obligations for CFDA 14.871, covering 126,356 awards, 2,097 recipients, and 55 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is agency volume rather than dollars, lead with 2,097 recipients and 126,356 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the Housing Choice Vouchers 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 wait-list instruction.

A worked reading of the 14.871 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $84,048,612,579.28, 126,356 awards, 2,097 recipients, and 55 states under CFDA 14.871. The mean near $665,000 is a quotient from a high award count, not a payment standard. If a later USAspending.gov file adds many incremental PHA actions, 126,356 can rise while dollars barely move. If a few large renewals post, $84,048,612,579.28 can jump without a matching jump in 2,097 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits tenant-based vouchers by special-purpose programs or by utilization rate. Those cuts live in HUD publications. Treat CFDA 14.871 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the Housing Choice Vouchers program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 2,097 organizational recipients so the figure is not read as a tenant census.

Readers comparing CFDA 14.871 across extracts should keep the 126,356-award count and the 2,097-recipient count in the same sentence as $84,048,612,579.28. 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 Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $84,048,612,579.28 in obligations for CFDA 14.871. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of voucher households. The same extract lists 126,356 awards, 2,097 recipients, and 55 states.

Are the 2,097 recipients voucher holders?

No. The 2,097 figure is organizational recipients stored on USAspending.gov assistance rows for CFDA 14.871, typically public housing agencies, not a tenant headcount. Award volume is 126,356 records. The $84,048,612,579.28 total is still an obligation sum, not a per-household subsidy published here.

Does the voucher total include rent already paid to landlords?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $84,048,612,579.28 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 126,356-award count is a record tally, not a count of HAP checks issued. Cite CFDA 14.871 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 14.871?

The extract codes 55 states for Housing Choice Vouchers. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every unit. Those rows still sit under the $84,048,612,579.28 obligation total and the 2,097-recipient count. Cite CFDA 14.871 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.