General Services Administration in Alabama

HUD awards tagged to Alabama

Department of Housing and Urban Development as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 15,993 records summing to $3,012,089,891.48. A Department of Housing and Urban Development award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) excludes Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. A Pensacola-coded award is Florida.

Fifteen thousand nine hundred ninety-three awards is a high-count HUD file. Recurring assistance can thicken a list without each row being a new building. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 15,993 as 15,993 unique housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. The overlay Department of Housing and Urban Development in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Birmingham, Mobile, and Huntsville are unpublished geography. $3,012,089,891.48 stays statewide on 086 × AL. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not “cause” $3,012,089,891.48 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 086 × AL only.

15,993 rows are not 15,993 units

$3,012,089,891.48 does not measure housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 086 and an AL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 15,993 awards as a census of housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alabama federal spending or Department of Housing and Urban Development matched $3,012,089,891.48 and 15,993, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee HUD joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Housing and Urban Development obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $3,012,089,891.48 across 15,993 awards with awarding agency 086 and an Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Alabama is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,012,089,891.48.

Is $3,012,089,891.48 a measure of housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households?

No. The packet publishes $3,012,089,891.48 and 15,993 awards for agency 086 inside AL coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this HUD file have 15,993 awards?

That is the award-record count for 086 × AL. Combined with $3,012,089,891.48, the average is about $188,338. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 15,993 is not unique housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Housing and Urban Development in Alabama is the overlay. Alabama federal spending and Department of Housing and Urban Development are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,012,089,891.48. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.