New multifamily housing construction (NAICS 236116) contract obligations

Ninety-nine awards, construction-scale dollars

Ninety-nine actions totaling $2,592,718,206.66 imply about $26.2 million per award. That ratio matches a construction code more than a high-volume supply schedule: few vehicles, large commitments. The packet does not name the projects. It supports only the obligation sum and the 99-award count.

For-sale builders are excluded from the Census title. On a federal award the six digits are still whatever the contracting office reported. A military family-housing or other multifamily construction contract tagged 236116 feeds this total even if the occupancy model differs from a civilian apartment project.

Construction obligations versus housing assistance

USAspending.gov obligations on 236116 are signed construction-contract commitments. Tenant-based assistance, block grants, and other housing programs often appear as assistance awards without NAICS. Those instruments are outside $2,592,718,206.66. Adding HUD program totals to this industry figure would mix procurement and assistance.

Outlays on a construction vehicle trail the obligation as invoices are paid against progress. Citing $2.59 billion as money already in the ground is incorrect. Citing it as an appropriation is also incorrect. It is the recorded contract-obligation stock for awards classified 236116.

What 99 does not measure

The 99 awards are contract records, including modifications that keep the code. They are not 99 buildings and not 99 cities. A single multi-phase housing contract can generate several of those rows. Negative change orders reduce the net obligation without deleting the project from history.

Neighboring construction codes

New single-family housing, commercial building construction, and specialty trades (roofing, electrical) use other NAICS lines when tagged that way. Their dollars are not inside $2,592,718,206.66. The all-industries index is the place to compare 236116 with those neighbors.

Using the multifamily hub

The New Multifamily Housing Construction industry page lists the USAspending.gov actions behind the $2.59 billion. Recipients, agencies, and places of performance belong on that table. This guide does not invent unit counts or completion dates.

Citing 236116 without turning it into a housing-production score

Quote $2,592,718,206.66 as USAspending contract obligations on 99 awards tagged NAICS 236116. Do not convert the total into apartments built. Construction codes record contractor commitments, not certificates of occupancy. Progress payments and retainage are outlay mechanics this packet does not publish.

The 99-award count is small enough that one large vehicle can dominate the industry. That concentration is arithmetic, not a finding about housing policy. If a successor award uses commercial-building NAICS 236220 instead, dollars can leave 236116. Check the live hub after warehouse refreshes.

Assistance without NAICS stays outside. A HOME or CDBG dollar that never carried 236116 is not in this rollup. Budget justifications that discuss “housing construction” as an account are a different public-record layer from this NAICS filter.

Specialty trades on a multifamily site—roofing, plumbing, electrical—may be tagged to their own codes on separate awards. Those awards are not automatically inside $2,592,718,206.66. Quote USAspending.gov, quote obligations, quote 99 awards, and open the industry page for the rows. Stop before treating the Census exception for for-sale builders as a federal policy footnote.

Readers quoting this industry should keep two packet facts in one sentence: $2,592,718,207 in USAspending.gov contract obligations and 99 awards tagged NAICS 236116 (NEW MULTIFAMILY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (EXCEPT FOR-SALE BUILDERS)). Dropping either figure hides whether the book is a few large vehicles or many small orders. The rounded obligation used for citation is $2,592,718,207; cents on the source total, if any, do not change the industry identity of the code.

NEW MULTIFAMILY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (EXCEPT FOR-SALE BUILDERS) shows a small award-record count (99). A handful of vehicles can dominate the obligation stock. Do not read that shape as a completeness claim or as a vendor census. Construction and specialty-trade codes record contractor commitments, not certificates of occupancy or squares of material in place. NEW MULTIFAMILY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (EXCEPT FOR-SALE BUILDERS) follows the six digits on the award. Record corrections in the USAspending.gov warehouse can move both the $2,592,718,207 and the 99-award count. Treat the live NEW MULTIFAMILY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (EXCEPT FOR-SALE BUILDERS) industry page as current and this file as a reading of the harvested packet.

Internal comparison belongs on the all-industries index, where NAICS 236116 sits beside other six-digit contract totals. Adding neighboring codes by hand creates a new total this packet does not contain; cite each NAICS if you add. Assistance awards that omit NAICS remain outside $2,592,718,207. Outlays remain unpublished here. Quote obligations, quote 99 awards, cite USAspending.gov, and open the overlay hub for recipients rather than inventing agencies, fiscal years, or unit counts the packet does not list.

Questions

How much federal contracting is tagged NAICS 236116?

USAspending.gov shows $2,592,718,206.66 in obligations on 99 contract awards coded New Multifamily Housing Construction (except for-sale builders). That is a procurement commitment total, not units built and not grant outlays. USAspending.gov is the source for the $2,592,718,207 obligation stock and the 99 contract awards tagged NEW MULTIFAMILY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (EXCEPT FOR-SALE BUILDERS) (NAICS 236116). Assistance awards that omit NAICS are outside both figures.

Why are there only 99 awards?

The indexed file contains 99 contract actions with this NAICS, including modifications that keep the code. Multifamily construction is often bought in large vehicles. 99 is an award-record count, not 99 properties. Keep the citation on contract obligations: $2,592,718,207 on 99 awards coded NAICS 236116. Outlays, grants without NAICS, and unit counts are not in the packet that produced this page.

Does this include housing vouchers or HUD grants?

Not by design. NAICS is a contract field. Assistance awards may omit NAICS, so voucher and grant dollars are not in the $2,592,718,206.66 industry total. The industry hub lists the underlying USAspending.gov rows. This answer restates only packet facts: NAICS 236116, $2,592,718,207 obligated, and 99 awards for NEW MULTIFAMILY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (EXCEPT FOR-SALE BUILDERS).

Is 236116 the same as commercial building construction?

No. Commercial and institutional building construction is a different NAICS when tagged that way. Only awards reported as 236116 feed this $2,592,718,206.66 and the 99-award count. Do not treat 99 as establishments or $2,592,718,207 as cash disbursed. Both numbers describe USAspending.gov contract actions tagged NAICS 236116 (NEW MULTIFAMILY HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (EXCEPT FOR-SALE BUILDERS)), not assistance and not outlays.